The Samurai and the Secret of the Flower

(1983)

Genres: History, Action, Drama

Year: 1983

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 児玉進

Cast: 青木義朗, 市川男女之助, 加藤剛, 真野響子, Mariko Miike, 宮内洋, 竜崎勝, 辰巳柳太郎

Plot

During Ienari Tokugawa's period. Hanakurabe (a playful competition of poetry with flowers in this period) was held to please Shogun (General), and Shiroshobu of the Date family and Higoshobu of the Hosokawa family competed with each other. As a result, the Hosokawa family won and Yahei Tabuki of the Date family killed himself. At the funeral, a beautiful woman (Hibiko Maya) appeared in front of Yahei's son, Yazyuro (Tsuyoshi Kato). The woman said, "I am a woman of the Hosokawa family, and the person who killed your father" and left. To revenge father, he became "Hanaonmitsu" to make a better flower than Higoshobu.