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Flowers in the Shadow (2008)

★ 7.0/10 129 min Comedy, Drama, Romance Japan Japanese
Novel: Gekidan Hitori
Screenplay by: Arisa Kaneko
Streaming: Not available

Description

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.

Top Cast

Junichi Okada
Junichi Okada Shinya
Aoi Miyazaki
Aoi Miyazaki Hisako / Naruko
Atsushi Ito
Atsushi Ito Raita
Aya Hirayama
Aya Hirayama Miyako
Tamaki Ogawa
Tamaki Ogawa Jupiter
Takashi Tsukamoto
Takashi Tsukamoto Yusuke
Toshiyuki Nishida
Toshiyuki Nishida Moses
Tomokazu Miura
Tomokazu Miura Ryokutaro

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