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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.
Cast
Eitarō Ozawa, Koreya Senda, Nobuko Otowa, Haruko Sugimura, Osamu Takizawa, Jūkichi Uno, Shôji Furuta, Takako Miki, Yasuko Yagami, Taiji Tonoyama, Jun Hamamura, Kunitarō Kawarasaki
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