Sakura-tai Chiru (1988)
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
Top billed cast
Eitarō Ozawa
Koreya Senda
Nobuko Otowa
Haruko Sugimura
Osamu Takizawa
Jūkichi Uno
Shôji Furuta- Takako Miki
Yasuko Yagami
Taiji Tonoyama
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