Flowers for Algernon (2015)

04/10/2015 (JP) • 48m

Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Overview

Shiratori Sakuto is 28, but has the intelligence of a 6-year-old boy. He works for Dream Flower Service, a flower distribution centre which provides employment for problem youth. One day, he and a colleague, Yanagawa Ryuichi, delivers a rose bouquet to the apartment building where Mochizuki Haruka lives. Because Haruka does not know that the deliveryman is mentally challenged, she is shocked by his response and tries to call the police. Haruka works for a brain physiology research centre where Professor Hachisuka Daigo has been studying the improvement of mental performance. He has succeeded in lab experiments on a white mouse called Algernon. Sakuto is transformed into a genius through surgery. But Algernon's new intelligence begins to fade, and he dies. Sakuto realises that his genius, too, is destined to leave him.

Top Billed Cast

Tomohisa Yamashita

Sakito Shiratori

10 Episodes

Chiaki Kuriyama

Haruka Mochizuki

10 Episodes

Masataka Kubota

Ryuichi Yanagawa

10 Episodes

Asuka Kudo

Kosuke Hiyama

10 Episodes

Fuma Kikuchi

Kazushige Kokubo

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Mitsuki Tanimura

Rio Kawaguchi

10 Episodes

Aya Omasa

Mai Koide

10 Episodes

Gamon Kaai

Shiro Sugino

10 Episodes

Katsuya

Dai Shikanai

10 Episodes


Last Season

Season 1

2015 | 10 Episodes

Season 1 of Flowers for Algernon premiered on April 10, 2015.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Scripted

Original Language

Japanese

Keywords

based on novel or book

friendship

slice of life

tragic past

tearjerker

mental health

child abandonment

intellectual disability

medical drama

mother son relationship

brother sister relationship

medical

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