Joseph Luster
July 8, 2025 
The Last Blossom is an upcoming anime film from ODDTAXI creator Baku Kinoshita, and more info came out during a panel at this past weekend’s Anime Expo event. In addition to sharing the film’s first full trailer, the staff came through with a new visual, theme song and October 10 premiere plans.
Check out the trailer, which previews the theme song “Moving Still Life” by Japanese pop band cero, below.
The Last Blossom Trailer
Visual:
New cast members were also announced, and you can see them on the bottom row of this cast visual. They are, from left to right:
- Hideaki Murata as Hayashida
- Hiroki Yasumoto as Tsutsumi
- Soma Saito as Wakamatsu
- Kota Nakayama as Konishi
Kinoshita directs and handles character designs for the film with Kazuya Konomoto writing the screenplay. Pompo the Cinéphile studio CLAP is producing the animation.
Here’s how the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which screened the film as an official selection, describes it:
Autumn 2023. Akutsu, an elderly inmate serving life in prison, is on the verge of a lonely death in his single cell. A talking Housenka flower says to him, “What a rotten life you had.” Akutsu starts reflecting on his past. Summer 1986. Akutsu is living with Nana and her son Kensuke in a shabby apartment with a garden full of Housenkas. It is the tale of a one-night victorious comeback by a dying yakuza, and his family’s story told by a flower that blooms in prison.
Source: Crunchyroll News
