Original Title: Hana
Director: Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Jahr : 2006
Genre: Drama
Land:Japan
Japan Release: 03.Juni 2006
Freigabe: PG-12
Darsteller :
Jun'ichi Okada
Rie Miyazawa
Arata Furuta
Tadanobu Asano
Teruyuki Kagawa
Yui Natsukawa
Renji Ishibashi
Ryô Kase
Moeko Ezawa
Susumu Terajima
Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Ein Name, den die meisten wohl durch das emotional erschütternde Drama "Nobody Knows" kennen dürften. Was bisher seine ganzen Filme - sei es der eben genannte "Nobody Knows" oder "Distance"- ausmachte, war ihr dokumentarischer, beobachtender Stil. In seinem neuesten Film "Hana" geht der gute Mann jedoch ganz andere Wege und zeigt sich von einer neuen, teils gar humorvollen Seite. Angesiedelt im Japan des 18ten Jahrhunderts erzählt Kore-Eda diesmal eine Rachegeschichte der etwas anderen Art. Genauers dazu in der folgenden Synopsis.
Ach, eine Gemeinsamkeit zu Kore-Edas älteren Arbeiten besteht jedoch: Stammschauspieler wie Tadanobu Asano und Susumu Terajima sind wieder mit von der Party. Sicherlich keine schlechte Wahl.
The time is 1702. A young samurai, Sozaemon Aoki (OKADA Jun'ichi), has left his countryside hometown and is now living in Edo (Tokyo), in search of Jubei Kanazawa (ASANO Tadanobu) - the man who killed his father.
He is living in a dilapidated tenement house, in the poor quarters of Edo. His neighbors in the so-called "row houses" are all good, solid folk who can never even hope to rise out of the squalor of their surroundings. Sozaemon, the provincial samurai, becomes friends with a variety of characters including a habitual drunk, an unsuccessful would-be petty official, a ragman, a perky girl, a doctor, and a scrivener. As the relationships between the characters unfold, we are led deeper into the blossoming love story of Sozaemon and the beautiful widow, Osae (MIYAZAWA Rie).
Although he has never forgotten his task to find his father's enemy and to succeed in his vengeance, being around Osae and her son, Sozaemon feels a warm feeling inside, which leads to doubts about the entire act of revenge. However, to walk away from the revenge act (adauchi) could actually bring his entire family down; not only would he be without the reward from the Shogun, but also, as a samurai, his failure to seek revenge would be an act of cowardice, and a disgrace to the entire family name.
Sozaemon, still not being able to decide whether he should seek revenge, goes on with his everyday life, teaching the neighborhood children mathematics, reading, and writing. He wonders whether he can ever enjoy life without the specter of revenge and swordplay.
With the discovery of a rich, meaningful life rather than the meaningless death of a warrior, Sozaemon, together with his strange friends at the tenement row house, decides to plot the act of a lifetime....
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