The First Original Full-Length Feature from ODDTAXI Director Baku Kinoshita and Writer Kazuya Konomoto
Produced by Studio CLAP
©Kazuya Konomoto /The Last Blossom Production Committee
Tickets are now on sale for THE LAST BLOSSOM, the first original feature-length anime film directed by Baku Kinoshita (ODDTAXI) and animated by CLAP Animation Studio. The tear-jerking, colorful film comes to theaters for two nights only, August 30th and 31st, in original Japanese language with English subtitles.
THE LAST BLOSSOM held its world premiere as a selection for Best Feature at Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2025. The film held its US premiere within North America’s largest Japanese film festival, JAPAN CUTS, hosted by Japan Society in New York on July 10th. The feature stars Kaoru Kobayashi as Akutsu (Younger), Junki Tozuka as Akutsu (Older), Hikari Mitsushima as Nana Nagata (Younger), Yoshiko Miyazaki as Nana Nagata (Older), Natsuki Hanae (Kensuke), Hiroki Yasumoto as Tsutsumi, Soma Saito as Wakamatsu, Hideaki Murata as Hayashida, Kouta Nakayama as Konishi, and Pierre Taki as Housenka Flower.
Synopsis:
Former yakuza Akutsu is serving life in prison after a middling career in the underworld. On the night he lays dying in his cell, he reminisces with his only companion, a smart-mouthed flower growing out of a can, about the choices that brought him here, the woman he loved, and a child he would give everything to protect. Is redemption out of reach?
From director Baku Kinoshita and writer Kazuya Konomoto, creators of ODDTAXI, and award-winning Studio CLAP (Pompo the Cinephile), THE LAST BLOSSOM is a thrillingly original work from animation’s most inventive new talent. Moving across time and memory, the film is an unforgettable meditation on found family, sacrifice, and the complicated pieces that join together to make a life.