Tomorrow (1988 film)

Tomorrow (TOMORROW 明日), also known as Ashita and Tomorrow – ashita is a 1988 Japanese film co-written and directed by Kazuo Kuroki.^[1] It is the first film in Kuroki’s "War Requiem" thematic trilogy, followed by A Boy’s Summer in 1945 (2002) and The Face of Jizo (2004).

Tomorrow
Film poster
Japanese name
Kanji	TOMORROW 明日
Kana	トゥモロー あした
Directed by	Kazuo Kuroki
Screenplay by	Kazuo Kuroki Masako Inoue Juichiro Takeuchi
Based on	Ashita by Mitsuharu Inoue
Starring	Kaori Momoi Kaho Minami Atsuko Sendo Arthur Kuroda Shirō Sano
Cinematography	Tatsuo Suzuki
Edited by	Masaru Iizuka
Music by	Teizo Matsumura
Production companies	Light Vision Sawai Production Soeishinsha Company
Distributed by	Nippon Herald Films
Release date	August 13, 1988 (1988-08-13) (Japan)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Premise

Tomorrow follows the lives of the people of Nagasaki on August 8, 1945, the day before the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. These include a newlywed couple, a pregnant mother and a boy drafted into the army. It chronicles their struggles, their hopes and their dreams for the future, juxtaposed with the reality of what will transpire the following day.

Cast

• Kaori Momoi as Tsuruko Miura
• Kaho Minami as Yae Miura
• Atsuko Sendo as Akiko Miura
• Arthur Kuroda as Tsuguo Ishihara
• Shirō Sano as Shoji Nakagawa
• Hiroyuki Nagato as Taiichiro Miura
• Haruko Mabuchi as Miura's wife
• Shinichiro Okano as Hiro
• Kunie Tanaka
• Moeko Ezawa as Mine
• Yoshio Harada as Yamaguchi
• Kaori Mizushima as Aya
• Hitomi Morinaga as Haruko
• Hiroko Isayama as Prostitute
• Nabe Osami as Mizumoto
• Irie Wakaba as Manko
• Natsuko Kahara as Midwife
• Michiko Araki as Fujio's mother
• Michiyo Yokoyama as Matchmaker
• Terumi Niki as Kiyo
• Taiji Tonoyama as Shopkeeper
• Daigo Kusano as Medicine seller
• Noboru Mitani
• Nishina Fuki

Awards and nominations

13th Hochi Film Award^[2]

• Won: Best Film