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The Last Blossom (2025)
Directed by Baku Kinoshita
Animation, Drama · 1h 31m
An elderly inmate serving a life sentence awaits a lonely death in solitary—until a voice calls out to him. It belongs to a balsam flower, Housenka, that speaks like a human. Through their 'conversation', the old man reflects on the life he's led.
Cast
Kaoru Kobayashi
Akutsu (1986) (voice)
Junki Tozuka
Akutsu (2023) (voice)
Hikari Mitsushima
Nana Nagata (younger) (voice)
Yoshiko Miyazaki
Nana Nagata (older) (voice)
Pierre Taki
Housenka (voice)
Hideaki Murata
Hayashida (voice)
Hiroki Yasumoto
Tsutsumi (voice)
Soma Saito
Wakamatsu (voice)
K
Kouta Nakayama
Konishi (voice)
Natsuki Hanae
Kensuke (voice)
Crew
- Director
- Baku Kinoshita
- Screenplay
- Kazuya Konomoto
- Director of Photography
- Takumi Hoshina, Takahiro Hondai
- Original Music Composer
- cero, Yu Arauchi, Tsubasa Hashimoto, Shohei Takagi
- Editor
- Yoshiki Ushiroda
- Producer
- Ryoichiro Matsuo, Hirofumi Ito, Tomoki Ueda, Minami Fukushima, Maki Kambe, Kousuke Arai
Details
- Original title
- ホウセンカ
- Release date
- 2025-10-10
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Animation, Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- CLAP, Pony Canyon, P.I.C.S., HI Production, KADOKAWA
- Box office
- $5,477