
A Chaos of Flowers
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.
A Chaos of Flowers
October 1, 1988
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Cast (15)

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
Crew (9)
Directing

Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Writing
Production
No data availableSound

Takayuki Inoue
Original Music Composer
Art

Akira Naitō
Art Direction
Camera

Daisaku Kimura
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew
No data availableEditing

Isamu Ichida
Editor