Ken Ogata
Kan Yosano
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.
Release Date | 1988-10-01 |
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Runtime | 2h 19m |
Directors | Kinji Fukasaku, Daisaku Kimura |
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Writers | Tomomi Tsutsui, Kinji Fukasaku, Fumio Kōnami, Michiko Nakahata |