Thirteen years afterward, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They should be," murmurs Minami (played by Kumiko Aso), one of the two leading female characters in Yunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni, as she lies dying in 1958, her life brought to a premature end by sickness resulting from her exposure to atomic bomb radiation. This is a story about those who at least initially survived the first U.S. atomic bombing of 1945 and their descendants in contemporary times. The film, based on a comic by Fumiyo Kono, jumps between the two time frames and quietly depicts the sorrow and mortification experienced through the everyday lives of laid-back and soft-spoken Hiroshima people. Only a few scenes of the bombing and the ensuing devastation are featured.
Credits
Yunagi City, Sakura Country Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Kumiko Aso
She was 29, now 46 years old
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as Minami Hirano |
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Rena Tanaka
She was 27, now 44 years old
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as Nanami Ishikawa |
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Yuta Kanai
was 22, now 40 years old
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as Nagio Ishikawa |
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Noriko Nakagoshi
She was 27, now 45 years old
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as Toko Tone |
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Takayo Mimura
She was 21, now 39 years old
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Ryôsei Tayama
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as Yutaka Uchikoshi (Old) |
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Asami Katsura
She was 23, now 40 years old
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Shiho Fujimura
She was 68, now 86 years old
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as Fujimi Hirano |
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Hisashi Yoshizawa
He was 28, now 46 years old
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as Yutaka Uchikoshi |
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Urara Awata
She was 32, now 50 years old
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as Kyoka Ota |
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Shunta Watanabe
He was 10, now 27 years old
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Mitsunori Isaki
He was 30, now 47 years old
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as Asahi Ishikawa |
Yunagi City, Sakura Country Crew
