Genres
Production Companies
Nippon Television Network Corporation
Flowers in the Shadow (陰日向に咲く)
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.
Key Crew
Director: Yuichiro Hirakawa
Producer: Genki Kawamura, Takahiro Sato, Yuka Higuchi
Screenplay: Arisa Kaneko
Director of Photography: Kôichi Nakayama
Top 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
