2025 | Japan | Animation

Housenka (The Last Blossom)

  • Japanese 90 mins
  • Director | Baku Kinoshita
  • Writer | Kazuya Konomoto
  • Producer | Ryoichiro Matsuo

STATUS: Completed

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Autumn 2023. Akutsu, an elderly inmate serving life in prison, is on the verge of a lonely death in his single cell. A talking Housenka flower says to him, "What a rotten life you had." Akutsu starts reflecting on his past. Summer 1986. Akutsu is living with Nana and her son Kensuke in a shabby apartment with a garden full of Housenkas. It is the tale of a one-night victorious comeback by a dying yakuza, and his family's story told by a flower that blooms in prison.

Artistic Redemption Longevity Introspective Flower
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