π 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.
π Languages Available:
Japanese
π Date Released:
1988-10-01
β Running Time:
139 mins
β Vote Average:
7.5
Beloved 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
Natsuko Fukao
Eri Saitou
Arishima's mother
Miki SanjΕ
Takeo Arishima
YΕ«saku Matsuda
