The official website for the upcoming original anime feature film The Last Blossom (known as HOUSENKA in Japan) released a teaser trailer and visuals, announcing its fall 2025 theatrical release in Japan and five main voice cast members.
The Last Blossom Teaser Trailer
Teaser Visuals
Kaoru Kobayashi and Junki Tozuka play the protagonist Akutsu’s present and past, respectively. This is actor Tozuka’s first voice acting role. Akutsu’s partner, Nana Nagata, are voiced by Hikari Mitsushima Hikari and Yoshiko Miyazaki. Pierre Taki, a member of Japanese techno unit Denki Groove, voices Housenka.
Additionally, the film has been officially selected for the Feature Film Competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025. Two Japanese films have been selected for this year’s selection, the other being STUDIO 4℃’s ChaO.
The Annecy’s official website describe The Last Blossom‘s plot as such:
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.
Baku Kinoshita, who directed the original TV anime series ODDTAXI, directs and handle character design of The Last Blossom , with Kazuya Konomoto (who wrote the script for ODDTAXI) writing the screenplay. Animation creator and game art designer Michinoku-toge provides the concept art. Anime production company CLAP (Pompo: The Cinéphile) works on planning and production. Three-piece Japanese pop rock band cero provides soundtrack music.
Sources: “The Last Blossom” official website / X (formerly Twitter), The Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025 official website
ⒸKazuya Konomoto/HOUSENKA Production Committee
