Eri Saitou

Au coeur de la pègre d'Osaka, une femme redoutable dirige un clan de cinq cents yakuzas tandis que son mari croupit en prison. Elle souhaite marier sa soeur à un notable non corrompu mais celle-ci est amoureuse d'un yakuza de la bande rivale.

Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths. The closest parallels might be the Byron/Shelley group or the people drawn to the Beat Generation.

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man innocent of a false murder charge and in the process discovers love for the first time in his arms.

Shirô Amakusa, chef des insurgés catholiques tués par le Shogunat lors du massacre de Shimabara, revient à la vie à l'aide de pouvoirs démoniaques.