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Flowers in the Shadow (2008)
Directed by Yuichiro Hirakawa
Comedy, Drama, Romance · 2h 09m
Shinya is in debt as a result of his gambling habit. He attempts to defraud an old woman with a bank transfer scam, but the woman reminds him of his late mother and they start to relate to each other. Meanwhile, Shinya meets a girl called Hisako in town, and ends up helping her to find out the whereabouts of an unsuccessful comedian, Raita, whom her mother was in love with in her youth. Shinya's father, Ryutaro, is disowned by his son after his wife's death. When Ryutaro meets a homeless man called Moses, he starts living on the street as well. One day when the old woman dies, Moses comes to the deceased and confesses his past. Subsequently Shinya resumes communicating with his father Ryutaro.
Cast
Junichi Okada
Aoi Miyazaki
Atsushi Ito
Aya Hirayama
Tamaki Ogawa
Takashi Tsukamoto
Toshiyuki Nishida
Tomokazu Miura
Ryuji Yamamoto
Masashi Suwa
Masahiro Toda
Crew
- Director
- Yuichiro Hirakawa
- Screenplay
- Arisa Kaneko
- Novel
- Gekidan Hitori
- Director of Photography
- Kôichi Nakayama
- Original Music Composer
- Hiroyuki Sawano
- Editor
- Tsuyoshi Imai
- Producer
- Genki Kawamura, Takahiro Sato, Yuka Higuchi
Details
- Original title
- 陰日向に咲く
- Release date
- 2008-01-26
- Runtime
- 2h 09m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Gentosha, J Storm, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, OHTA PRODUCTION, Nippan Group Holdings, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners