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Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Film / 1997

Remembering the Cosmos Flower

Directed by Junichi Suzuki
Drama

★ 5.0/10Audience rating

Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend and her mom in her corner, Akiko suffers awful discrimination at school and at home.

The story

Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend and her mom in her corner, Akiko suffers awful discrimination at school and at home.

Cast

Akane OdaAkiko Mari NatsukiAkiko's mother Megumi Matsushita Megumi Sakakibara Rumi Sakakibara Kai Shishido Ken'ichi Ishii Toshiya Fujita Tamio Kawachi Masahiro Noguchi Joe Shishido Hisano Yamaoka

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