Under the Nagasaki Sky

movie

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 & crew

Yuya Yagira · Junko Miyashita · Chizuru Ikewaki · Minayo Watanabe · Renji Ishibashi · Tetta Sugimoto · Yûichi Seirai · Hirofumi Harada · Taro Hyugaji · Shiro Sano · Takahiro Hōjō · Izumi Inamori · Kie Kitano