The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

残菊物語

Also known as Historia del último crisantemo, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, Zangiku monogatari, Erzählung von den späten Chrysanthemen, 마지막 국화 이야기

In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully joins him.