Flowers in the Shadow

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.

7

129 min

Cast

Junichi Okada

as Shinya

Aoi Miyazaki

as Hisako / Naruko

Atsushi Ito

as Raita

Aya Hirayama

as Miyako

Tamaki Ogawa

as Jupiter

Takashi Tsukamoto

as Yusuke

Toshiyuki Nishida

as Moses

Tomokazu Miura

as Ryokutaro

Ryuji Yamamoto

Masashi Suwa

Masahiro Toda

Takaaki Kuwashiro

Mansaku Ikeuchi

Shoichiro Masumoto

Manabu Hamada

Tomoko Ikuta

Natsume Sano

Director

Yuichiro Hirakawa