Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Anti-War Trilogy

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Jitendar Canth

A limited edition 3 disc digipack bluray set of 3 films from legendary Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi.
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 500 mins
Retail Price: £59.99
Release Date: 2021
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
Disc 1:
Casting Blossoms to the Skyこの空の花 長岡花火物語 (2012)
Endo Reiko is a journalist visiting Nagaoka to comment on the aftermath of the earthquake in Tohoku. From local residents, Endo learns about the city's fireworks traditions, and how the region was destroyed during the war.


Disc 2:
Seven Weeks野のなななのか (2014)
Weaving the life of a 92-year-old doctor into the history of a small Hokkaido city, “Seven Weeks” addresses Japan’s wartime responsibility, its present nuclear crisis and the heartaches of youth and love.

Disc 3:
Hanagatami 花筐 (2017)
In the spring of 1941, sixteen-year-old Toshihiko leaves Amsterdam to attend school in Karatsu, a small town on the western coast of Japan. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's inescapable gravitational pull.

Special Features:
Interviews with Nobuhiko Obayashi
Making ofs
Digipack Limited edition set (2000 copies)
Includes booklet by historian Aaron Gerow