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Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly

2009·Movie
1h 19min
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Low-key.

Energy

Calm and low-key

  • Tension5
  • Adrenaline4
  • Fast Pace4

Heart

Melancholic and moving

  • Melancholy8
  • Pathos7
  • Nostalgia7

Humor

A little humor

Not a comedy at heart.

  • Absurdist Humor3
  • Dark Humor3
  • Wit & Wordplay2

World

History, the mind, and faith and meaning

  • World Immersion6
  • Dialogue Centrality6
  • Novelty6

Craft

Solid, not remarkable

  • Acting7
  • Narrative Structure7
  • Character Depth7

Style

Functional look and sound

  • Cinematography6
  • Editing6
  • Music Composition6

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About

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.
Coming of AgeMelancholy ReflectionSpiritual AwakeningJapanese Nursing HomeGolden Flower of ImmortalityElderly ProtagonistNostalgic MemoriesBotanical Mystery

Crew

Directed by:
Takeo Kimura
Written by:
Kaizo Hayashi, Ryushi Mizukami, Takeo Kimura
Produced by:
Kaizo Hayashi, Jun Kawabata, Tatsuya Yamamoto
Composed by:
Yukio Kubota, Tomoharu Urata, Jun Kawabata

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How long is Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly?

1 h 19 min

Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly runs 1 h 19 min.

What language is Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly in?

Japanese

It was made in Japanese. Produced in Japan.