A Chaos of Flowers
01/10/1988
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.
Movie Information
Ken Ogata
as Kan Yosano
Sayuri Yoshinaga
as Akiko Yosano
Keiko Matsuzaka
as Sumako Matsui
Kimiko Ikegami
as Akiko Hatano
Morio Kazama
as Sakae Osugi
Eri Ishida
as Noe Ito
Yoshiko Nakada
as Tomiko Yamakawa
Mineko Nishikawa
as Takino Hayashi
Mikio Narita
as Harufusa Hatano
Keizo Kanie
as Hogetsu Shimamura
Renji Ishibashi
as Shojiro Sawada
Takashi Naito
as Kyutaro Wada
Eri Saitou
as Natsuko Fukao
Miki Sanjō
as Arishima's mother
Yūsaku Matsuda
as Takeo Arishima
