Yunagi City, Sakura Country

2007 7.0 (1 votes) 1h 58m

Genres

Production Companies

Art Port
Big Shot Productions
Fukuoka Broadcasting System
Futabasha
SEGA
Sumitomo Corporation
Yomiuri Shimbun Company
TFC
Tokyu Recreation
Tsuburaya Entertainment
Tokyo FM
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

Yunagi City, Sakura Country (夕凪の街桜の国)

Overview

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.