A Chaos of Flowers
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A Chaos of Flowers is a 1988 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku
. The theme is movements of society and art in Taishō period
from a viewpoint of Akiko Yosano.
Kinji Fukasaku
was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer...
. The theme is movements of society and art in Taishō period
Taisho period
The , or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912 to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Taishō Emperor. The health of the new emperor was weak, which prompted the shift in political power from the old oligarchic group of elder statesmen to the Diet...
from a viewpoint of Akiko Yosano.
Cast
- Sayuri Yoshinaga as Akiko Yosano
- Keiko MatsuzakaKeiko Matsuzakais an actress.Born in Ōta, Tokyo, her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku....
as Sumako MatsuiSumako Matsuiwas a Japanese actress and singer. Born as Masako Kobayashi in Matsushiro, Nagano, Nagano Prefecture as the fifth daughter and last of nine children of Tohta Kobayashi, she was adopted by the Hasegawa family in Ueda at the age of six and in 1900 graduated Ueda school... - Ken OgataKen OgataKen Ogata was a Japanese actor.Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama...
as Kan YosanoTekkan Yosanowas the pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi, a Japanese author and poet active in late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. His wife was fellow author Yosano Akiko. Kaoru Yosano, cabinet minister and politician is his grandson.-Early life:... - Kimiko IkegamiKimiko Ikegamiis a Japanese actress. Born in Manhattan, New York City, she moved to Kyoto at age 3. Kimiko graduated from Horikoshi High School in Nakano, Tokyo and subsequently attended Tamagawa University. She is closely related to the Bandō Mitsugorō kabuki actors: her grandfather was the eighth, her uncle...
as Akiko Hatano - Morio KazamaMorio Kazamais a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 2nd Yokohama Film Festival for Shiki Natsuko and Yūgure made and at the 6th and 7th Japan Academy Prizes.-Filmography:...
as Sakae Osugi - Eri Ishida as Noe ItōNoe Itowas a Japanese anarchist, social critic, author and feminist.-Biography:Itō graduated from Ueno Girls' High School in Ueno, Tokyo, and joined the Bluestocking Society , producer of the feminist arts and culture magazine Seitō in 1912...
- Yusaku MatsudaYusaku Matsudawas a Japanese actor. Yusaku was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi to a Zainichi Korean mother. His father is not known. His date was wrongly recorded as 1950 on his birth records due to a parental error in filing a report.-Career:...
as Takeo Arishima - Yoshiko Nakada as Tomiko Yamakawa
- Mineko Nishikawa as Takino Hayashi
- Mikio Narita as Harufusa Hatano
- Keizo KanieKeizō Kanieis a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for Angel Guts: Red Classroom and Jūkyūsai no Chizu and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Ware ni utsu yoi ari and Boku to, bokura no natsu....
as Hogetsu Shimamura - Renji Ishibashi as Shojiro Sawada
- Takashi Naitō as Kyutaro Wada
- Eri Saito as Natsuko Fukao
- Jack Atkinson as Fahv
- Miki Sanjo as Arishima's mother