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.
as Kan Yosano
as Akiko Yosano
as Sumako Matsui
as Akiko Hatano
as Sakae Osugi
as Noe Ito
as Tomiko Yamakawa
as Takino Hayashi
as Harufusa Hatano
as Hogetsu Shimamura
as Shojiro Sawada
as Kyutaro Wada
as Natsuko Fukao
as Arishima's mother
as Takeo Arishima
