Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
2009, Japanese. Directed by Takeo Kimura.
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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- 1h 19m
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- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 21 November 2009
- Original title
- 黄金花 秘すれば花、死すれば蝶
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Takeo Kimura
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Who directed Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly?
Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly (2009) was directed by Takeo Kimura and stars Yoshio Harada, Yūsuke Kawazu, Keiko Matsuzaka.