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.
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Ken Ogata as Kan Yosano
Sayuri Yoshinaga as Akiko Yosano
Keiko Matsuzaka as Sumako Matsui
Kimiko Ikegami as Akiko Hatano
Morio Kazama as Sakae Osugi
Eri Ishida as Noe Ito
Yoshiko Nakada as Tomiko Yamakawa
Mineko Nishikawa as Takino Hayashi
Mikio Narita as Harufusa Hatano
Keizo Kanie as Hogetsu Shimamura
Renji Ishibashi as Shojiro Sawada
Takashi Naito as Kyutaro Wada
Eri Saitou as Natsuko Fukao
Miki Sanjō as Arishima's mother
Yūsaku Matsuda as Takeo Arishima
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