A Chaos of Flowers (1988)

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths. The closest parallels might be the Byron/Shelley group or the people drawn to the Beat Generation.

Released Oct. 1, 1988 139 min None+

Genres: Drama, Romance

Keywords: tmdb.poetry, tmdb.romance, tmdb.art, tmdb.period-drama, tmdb.historical, tmdb.literary-adaptation, tmdb.taisho + 2 more, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.based-on-novel

Production Companies: Toei Company

Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese