Pony Canyon has begun streaming the first seven minutes of the original anime film The Last Blossom (Housenka). The film will premiere in Japan on October 10th, 2025.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQXe66vi0IU]
Konomoto Kadzuya is credited as the original creator and screenwriter for the anime film, while Kinoshita Baku is credited as the character designer and director for the film at CLAP Animation Studio.
The film will star both Kobayashi Kaoru and Tozuka Junki as the protagonist Akutsu, at different ages, while both Mitsushima Hikari and Miyazaki Yoshiko will voice the character of Nana Nagata at different points in her life. Taki Pierre will voice the Housenka flower.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vg_-XaToE]
The film’s story is described below:
Autumn 2023. Akutsu, an elderly inmate serving life in prison, is on the verge of a lonely death in his single cell. A talking Housenka flower says to him, “What a rotten life you had.” Akutsu starts reflecting on his past. Summer 1986. Akutsu is living with Nana and her son Kensuke in a shabby apartment with a garden full of Housenkas. It is the tale of a one-night victorious comeback by a dying yakuza, and his family’s story told by a flower that blooms in prison.
