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Flowers in the Shadow

Flowers in the Shadow

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 26, 2008

Runtime

2h 9m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

User Score

70%

Original Title

陰日向に咲く

Production Companies

TOHO, Nippon Television Network Corporation

Director

Yuichiro Hirakawa

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.