Manchester Animation Festival

MAF is delighted to present a film that is both intensely human and intensely vulnerable; swirling with emotion, regret and moments of connection.

Minoru Akatsu, an elderly prisoner serving life in prison, reflects on his final summer of freedom in 1986. A gentle, stoic man, he lived a peaceful life with a woman and her son, surrounded by Housenka flowers. This peace is short-lived, however; when money flows in, so does trouble. As death approaches, a Housenka flower growing in his cell guides Akatsu through the gut-wrenching memories of his past as a yakuza.

Join us after the screening for an in depth Q&A with Baku Kinoshita, the director of this thoughtful masterpiece.