

Flowers in the Shadow
2008, Japanese. Directed by Yuichiro Hirakawa.
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.
- Runtime
- 2h 9m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 26 January 2008
- Original title
- 陰日向に咲く
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Arisa Kaneko
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Flowers in the Shadow runs 129 minutes (2h 9m).
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Flowers in the Shadow isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 26 January 2008. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Flowers in the Shadow?
Flowers in the Shadow (2008) was directed by Yuichiro Hirakawa and stars Junichi Okada, Aoi Miyazaki, Atsushi Ito.