A Chaos of Flowers

Oct 1, 1988

2h 19m

★ 8.0

Overview

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths. The closest parallels might be the Byron/Shelley group or the people drawn to the Beat Generation.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Toei Company

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Cast

Kan Yosano

Ken Ogata

Akiko Yosano

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Sumako Matsui

Keiko Matsuzaka

Akiko Hatano

Kimiko Ikegami

Sakae Osugi

Morio Kazama

Noe Ito

Eri Ishida

Tomiko Yamakawa

Yoshiko Nakada

Takino Hayashi

Mineko Nishikawa

Harufusa Hatano

Mikio Narita

Hogetsu Shimamura

Keizo Kanie

Shojiro Sawada

Renji Ishibashi

Kyutaro Wada

Takashi Naito

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