A Chaos of Flowers

華の乱

1988 · 2h 19m · 7.5

Drama

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.

Kinji Fukasaku

Ken Ogata, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kimiko Ikegami, Morio Kazama, Eri Ishida, Yoshiko Nakada, Mineko Nishikawa, Mikio Narita, Keizo Kanie

poetry, romance, art, period drama, historical, literary adaptation, taisho period