2025’s The Last Blossom, the anime movie that reunites Odd Taxi‘s director (Baku Kinoshita) and writer (Kazuya Konomoto), will be screened in North America on August 30 and 31 this year. GKIDS is handling the release.
Here’s the synopsis from GKIDS:
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?
The Last Blossom (Housenka) was released in Japan on October 10, 2025. Konomoto is credited as the creator, while Kinoshita handled the character designs. The movie’s animation production studio is CLAP.
The cast includes Junki Tozuka as past Akutsu, Kaoru Kobayashi as present-day Akutsu, Hikari Mitsushima as past Nana, Yoshiko Miyazaki as present-day Nana, and Pierre Taki as a housenka flower.
The Last Blossom was part of Annecy 2024’s Work-in-Progress lineup and Annecy 2025’s Feature Film Competition.
Source: @GKIDSfilms (via Anime News Network)
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