A Chaos of Flowers (1988)
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.
Director:
Kinji Fukasaku
Writers:
Fumio Kōnami, Kinji Fukasaku, Tomomi Tsutsui.
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Ken Ogata as Kan Yosano |
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Sayuri Yoshinaga as Akiko Yosano |
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Keiko Matsuzaka as Sumako Matsui |
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Kimiko Ikegami as Akiko Hatano |
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Morio Kazama as Sakae Osugi |
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Eri Ishida as Noe Ito |
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Yoshiko Nakada as Tomiko Yamakawa |
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Mineko Nishikawa as Takino Hayashi |
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Mikio Narita as Harufusa Hatano |
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Keizo Kanie as Hogetsu Shimamura |
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Renji Ishibashi as Shojiro Sawada |
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Takashi Naito as Kyutaro Wada |
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Eri Saitou as Natsuko Fukao |
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Miki Sanjō as Arishima's mother |
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Yūsaku Matsuda as Takeo Arishima |
| Directing | Kinji Fukasaku | Director |
| Editing | Isamu Ichida | Editor |
| Art | Akira Naitō | Art Direction |
| Sound | Takayuki Inoue | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Daisaku Kimura | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Fumio Kōnami | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kinji Fukasaku | Screenplay |
| Writing | Tomomi Tsutsui | Screenplay |
| Writing | Michiko Nagahata | Novel |
