Audio dramaStation NHKReleased 5 August 2006Episodes 1 Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms type title author illustrator publisher publisher_en demographic imprint magazine magazine_en published first last volumes volume_list type title director producer writer music studio licensee network network_en first last episodes episode_list
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| - Audio dramaStation NHKReleased 5 August 2006Episodes 1 <default>Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms</default> type title author illustrator publisher publisher_en demographic imprint magazine magazine_en published first last volumes volume_list type title director producer writer music studio licensee network network_en first last episodes episode_list
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- Town of Evening Calm,
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| - Cover of the first tankōbon edition of the manga, published by Futabasha
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| - Yunagi City, Sakura Country
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- Sharp Point Publishing
- Munhak Segye Sa
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- 2007-07-28(xsd:date)
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| - Audio dramaStation NHKReleased 5 August 2006Episodes 1 <default>Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms</default> type title author illustrator publisher publisher_en demographic imprint magazine magazine_en published first last volumes volume_list type title director producer writer music studio licensee network network_en first last episodes episode_list Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms(夕凪の街 桜の国Yūnagi no machi, sakura no kuni) is a one-volume manga written and illustrated by Fumiyo Kōno. The two connected stories were first published in Japan by Futabasha in Weekly Manga Action in 2003 and 2004, then collected in a single tankōbon volume in 2004. The stories about a family of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The author based the characters on people who were in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms was adapted as a live-action film directed by Kiyoshi Sasabe released in 2007, called Yunagi City, Sakura Country in English. It has also been adapted as a novel by Kei Kunii and as a radio drama produced in 2006. The manga has received international praise for its simple but beautiful artwork and its quiet but "humane" anti-war message. It received the Grand Prize for manga at the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Creative Award. Kumiko Aso won several acting awards for her portrayal of Minami Hirano, one of the two protagonists, in the film adaptation.
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