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Off-Season Flowering

Off-Season Flowering

1973•1h 8m•8.0/10
Drama

Ratings

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8.0/10(1)

Debut film from manga artist Seiichi Hayashi. A boy and a girl from the same hometown reunite in the big city and sleep together one night. But, the girl reveals the following day that she is engaged to someone else...

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Production

Wakamatsu Production

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Available in Your Library

Cast

Jōji Ichimura

Yoshiharu Ozawa

Tetsu Kashiwa

Osamu Matsumura

Ruwi Hayama

Reiko Tajima

Ryujin Nagare

Nobuhiro Ikeda

Masami Arisawa

Fumiko Tajima

Chiba Suetomo

Woman in hotel

Shōhei Yamamoto

Shōhei Yamamoto

Man in trench coat

Genpei Akasegawa

Crossdresser

Mitsuo Aramaki

Company president

Setsuko Hayashi

Bar owner

Keitaro Nakajima

Kaori Naito

Young Reiko

Benjuro Togawa

Masaru Katsuma

Shohei Nishito

Narumi Dasaku

Toru Onishi

Kurae Yasuda

Atomi Shibuya

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