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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly (2009) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 21, 2009

Original Title:
黄金花　秘すれば花、死すれば蝶

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Airplane Label
Project Lamu
Uzumasa

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 79

Overview from TheMovieDB

Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.

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Production

Co-Producer:
Kaizo Hayashi

Co-Writer:
Kaizo Hayashi
Tatsuya Yamamoto
Ryushi Mizukami

Costume Design:
Sachiko Itô

Director:
Takeo Kimura

Director of Photography:
Shinji Ogawa

Editor:
Kazuhiro Shirao

Line Producer:
Tatsuya Yamamoto

Music:
Jun Kawabata

Producer:
Jun Kawabata

Production Design:
Kazuhiro Maruyama

Screenplay:
Takeo Kimura

Set Decoration:
Yuji Kasamura

Sound:
Kazuharu Urata

Sound Recordist:
Yukio Kubota

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