The Last Blossom (2025)
Original title: ホウセンカ
The Last Blossom is a 2025 Japanese-language animation movie directed by Baku Kinoshita, with a running time of 1h 31m. It stars Kaoru Kobayashi, Junki Tozuka and Hikari Mitsushima.
An elderly inmate serving a life sentence awaits a lonely death in his solitary cell, until a voice calls out to him. It belongs to a balsam flower, Housenka, that speaks like a human. Through their "conversation", the old man begins to reflect on the life he's led.
Cast
- Kaoru Kobayashi as Akutsu (1986) (voice)
- Junki Tozuka as Akutsu (2023) (voice)
- Hikari Mitsushima as Nana Nagata (younger) (voice)
- Yoshiko Miyazaki as Nana Nagata (older) (voice)
- Pierre Taki as Housenka (voice)
- Hideaki Murata as Hayashida (voice)
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Tsutsumi (voice)
- Soma Saito as Wakamatsu (voice)
- Kouta Nakayama as Konishi (voice)
- Natsuki Hanae as Kensuke (voice)