Flowers in the Shadow

Comedy · 2008

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.

Starring

Gekidan Hitori, Junichi Okada, Aoi Miyazaki, Genki Kawamura, Atsushi Ito, Yuichiro Hirakawa, Aya Hirayama, Arisa Kaneko, Kôichi Nakayama, Tamaki Ogawa

Director

Yuichiro Hirakawa

Producer

Takahiro Sato