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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
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Ken OgataKan Yosano
Sayuri YoshinagaAkiko Yosano
Keiko MatsuzakaSumako Matsui
Kimiko IkegamiAkiko Hatano
Morio KazamaSakae Osugi
Eri IshidaNoe Ito
Yoshiko NakadaTomiko Yamakawa
Mineko NishikawaTakino Hayashi
Mikio NaritaHarufusa Hatano
Keizo KanieHogetsu Shimamura
Renji IshibashiShojiro Sawada
Takashi NaitoKyutaro WadaExplore the crew
- Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Editor
- Isamu Ichida
- Original Music Composer
- Takayuki Inoue
- Director of Photography
- Daisaku Kimura
- Screenplay
- Fumio Kōnami
- Screenplay
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Screenplay
- Tomomi Tsutsui