A Chaos of Flowers (1988)

7.3/10 • 139 min • Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

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

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