The Flowers of Evil / 惡の華 (2019)

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• Movie: The Flowers of Evil (English & literal title)
• Romaji: Aku no Hana
• Japanese: 惡の華

• Director: Noboru Iguchi
• Writer: Shuzo Oshimi (manga), Mari Okada
• Producer: Yoshihiro Nagata, Hideyuki Wakuta
• Cinematographer: Shin Hayasaka
• Release Date: September 27, 2019
• Runtime: 127 min.
• Genre: Teen / Suspense / Romance / Based on a Comic
• Distributor: Phantom Film
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Synopsis

Takao Kasuga (Kentaro Ito) is a high school student. He sees his popular classmate Aya Tokiwa (Marie Iitoyo) reading Charles Pierre Baudelaire’s “The Flowers of Evil” at a bookstore. When Takao Kasuga was in middle school, he admired the poetry collection “The Flowers of Evil.”

As a 2nd grade middle school student, Takao Kasuga found the gym clothes of popular classmate Nanako Saeki (Shiori Akita) in a classroom. He had a huge crush on her at the time. At that time, Takao Kasuga sensed someone’s presence near him and, without thought, he took off with Nanako Saeki’s gym clothes. The person who saw Takao Kasuga in the classroom was Sawa Nakamura (Tina Tamashiro).