Under the Nagasaki Sky

Overview

Film adaptation of an original story from Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Director and Akutagawa Prize winner Yuichi Seirai, directed by Taro Hyugaji, who made the live-action version of Grave of the Fireflies. Depicts the fateful encounter between a daughter whose mother has died and a mother whose daughter has died. Jazz pianist Makoto Ozone makes his debut as a film composer. University student Kiyomi (Kie Kitano) is wracked by guilt after her mother dies of a heart attack the night they have an argument. Meanwhile, Saori (Izumi Inamori) finds out she is pregnant, but her daughter died a year before, and she is terrified of losing another child.

Cast

Kie Kitano

Kiyomi Kadota

Izumi Inamori

Saori Takamori

Yuya Yagira

Yuichi Hirose

Chizuru Ikewaki

Mihoko Takamori

Shiro Sano

Morikazu Kadota

Junko Miyashita

Takie Takamori

Takahiro Hōjō

Kota Yamaguchi

Renji Ishibashi

Ryoichi Takamori

Minayo Watanabe

Akiko Kadota

Tetta Sugimoto

Hiroyoshi Takamori