Limited series · TV Tokyo
The Flowers of Evil
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Fuku Suzuki
Takao Kasuga
12 eps
ano
Sawa Nakamura
12 eps
Aruno Nakanishi
Aya Tokiwa
12 eps
Manami Igashira
Nanako Saeki
12 eps
Chihiro Sudō
Ai Kinoshita
12 eps
Tomoharu Hasegawa
Tetsuo Kasuga
12 eps
Noriko Nakagoshi
Shizue Kasuga
12 eps
Mahiru Konno
Mayumi Saeki
12 eps
Keisuke Horibe
Kazuyuki Nakamura
12 eps
Akiko Hinagata
Shino Nakamura
12 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Flowers of Evil actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Flowers of Evil reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Bookworm Takao falls in love with Nanako, but he cannot express his feelings through words. Instead he secretively acts out in a heat of passion which creates a huge scandal in his school. There is one person who knows his true nature, and this girl will do anything to nurture what this Charles Baudelaire hides.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Kōichi UrushimaProducer
- Hideyuki WakutaProducer
Writing
- Shuuhou TakaseWriter
- Keita MeguroWriter
Direction
- Paul YoungDirector
- Noboru IguchiDirector
Where to watch
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