A Chaos of Flowers (1988)
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.
Directing:
Writing:
Stars:
- Kinji Fukasaku
Writing:
- Fumio Kōnami
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Tomomi Tsutsui
Stars:
Release Date: 1988-10-01
8/10
8/10
- Country: JP
- Language: 日本語
- Runtime: 139
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Sumako Matsui
Sakae Osugi
Kan Yosano
Akiko Yosano
Akiko Hatano
Noe Ito
Takeo Arishima
Tomiko Yamakawa
Takino Hayashi
Harufusa Hatano
Hogetsu Shimamura
Shojiro Sawada
Kyutaro Wada
Natsuko Fukao
Arishima's mother
Natsuko Fukao
