A Chaos of Flowers
Set in the Taisho era, 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.
Cast
Ken Ogata
Kan Yosano
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Akiko Yosano
Keiko Matsuzaka
Sumako Matsui
Kimiko Ikegami
Akiko Hatano
Morio Kazama
Sakae Osugi
Eri Ishida
Noe Ito
Yoshiko Nakada
Tomiko Yamakawa
Mineko Nishikawa
Takino Hayashi
Mikio Narita
Harufusa Hatano
Keizo Kanie
Hogetsu Shimamura
Renji Ishibashi
Shojiro Sawada
Takashi Naito
Kyutaro Wada
Eri Saitou
Natsuko Fukao
Miki Sanjō
Arishima's mother
Yūsaku Matsuda
Takeo Arishima
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Storyline
Set in the Taisho era, 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.
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