The story is set in Hikari City, Gunma Prefecture. Surrounded by mountains, second-year middle school student Kasuga Takao lives each day feeling a deep sense of suffocation and stagnation. What saves his heart is Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil). One evening, when Kasuga returns to his classroom to retrieve something he forgot, he finds the gym uniform of his admired classmate, Saeki Nanako, lying there. After looking around to make sure no one is nearby, Kasuga commits an impulsive mistake: he steals the uniform. However, the classroom was not empty. The entire incident was secretly witnessed by Nakamura Sawa, a problematic student in the class. The next day, Nakamura approaches Kasuga with a certain “contract,” offering to keep his secret in exchange for compliance. Gradually falling under Nakamura’s control, Kasuga is tossed about by her perverse demands. As he is driven deeper into despair, his sense of identity begins to collapse. Through an unexpected turn of events, Kasuga begins dating Saeki and finds himself tormented by the contradiction between his feelings of love and his sense of moral transgression. Torn between Nakamura and Saeki, Kasuga wavers. At a large local festival, Kasuga and Nakamura cause a major incident… (Source: Japanese = TV Tokyo || Translation = MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the manga series "The Flowers of Evil" (惡の華) by Oshimi Shuzo (押見修造). Edit Translation
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- Native Title: 惡の華
- Also Known As: Aku no Hana , あくのはな
- Director: Iguchi Noboru, Paul Young
- Screenwriter: Meguro Keita
- Genres: Thriller, Psychological, Romance, Youth
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![Suzuki Fuku in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)]( "Suzuki Fuku in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)")
Suzuki FukuKasuga TakaoMain Role -
![Ano in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)]( "Ano in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)")
AnoNakamura SawaMain Role -
![Nakanishi Aruno in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)]( "Nakanishi Aruno in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)")
Nakanishi ArunoTokiwa AyaSupport Role -
![Igashira Manami in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)]( "Igashira Manami in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)")
Igashira ManamiSaeki NanakoSupport Role -
![Hasegawa Tomoharu in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)]( "Hasegawa Tomoharu in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)")
Hasegawa TomoharuKasuga TetsuoSupport Role -
![Nakagoshi Noriko in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)]( "Nakagoshi Noriko in The Flowers of Evil Japanese Drama(2026)")
Nakagoshi NorikoKasuga ShizueSupport Role
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Reviews
I was probably not the right audience for it
This drama is a live adaptation from the manga of the same name from Oshimi Shuzo. His work has apparently been adapted several times but this is my first contact with his story. I had no prior knowledge on it and I can't say if it is a good adaptation or not, however it has for sure the feels of a manga, and it is pretty dark and disturbing. The hero of the story, Kasuga Takao, is a middle school teenager, feeling suffocated by the remote city he lives in, surrounded by moutains. He hates everything about it and build a quite disturbing relationship with Nakamura Sawa, a girl from his class, who shares the same feeling of rejection about the place they live in.I overall quite liked some of the more psychological aspect of the story but there is also a big part of over-the-top fetishization, which can feel quite jarring. It is also funny how the male lead, seem to have such a strong appeal for the female characters he met along his journey. This might be the most unrealistic part of the story, very in line with the harem shounen manga, with the "hero" being quite a "looser" but attracting girls almost "in spite of him".
Regarding the acting, it was overall too over-the-top, with some scenes feeling very grotesque. The cast felt also a bit strange : they are supposedly playing middle schoolers but it definitely don't feel like it. The actor playing the hero might have been the best at it (despite certainly seeming much older than the role) but the actresses felt kind of awkward at time. On the positive, the production value was good with some impactful and memorable sequences which I imagine strikingly mirror the higher beats of the manga.
I would recommend this to people looking for an impactful thriller, featuring adolscent turmoil. Overall, I did find some aspects disturbing, some others quite fascinating as it explores darker psychological aspects of teens, rejecting society. But at the end, I don't think I ever enjoyed the story per se, every character feeling pretty unlikeable and unrelatable to me. Though I was not necesserally receptive to the main's characters journey, I can understand the appeal, as it is a big fuck off to societal norms and the need to free oneself from it.
