A Chaos of Flowers

IMDb 7.5 1988 • 139 min • Drama

Director

Kinji Fukasaku

Country

JP

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Ken Ogata
Ken Ogata Kan Yosano
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Sayuri Yoshinaga Akiko Yosano
Keiko Matsuzaka
Keiko Matsuzaka Sumako Matsui
Kimiko Ikegami
Kimiko Ikegami Akiko Hatano
Morio Kazama
Morio Kazama Sakae Osugi