Flowers in the Shadow (2008)

7.0/10 129 min Comedy Drama Romance

Overview

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

Shinya

Aoi Miyazaki

Hisako / Naruko

Atsushi Ito

Raita

Aya Hirayama

Miyako

Tamaki Ogawa

Jupiter

Takashi Tsukamoto

Yusuke

Toshiyuki Nishida

Moses

Tomokazu Miura

Ryokutaro

Ryuji Yamamoto

Masashi Suwa

Masahiro Toda

Mansaku Ikeuchi

Shoichiro Masumoto

Manabu Hamada

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