In a season full of women supporting one another, let us take a moment to reflect on Flower and Asura, streaming now on HIDIVE. Haruyama Hana is a young woman who, after being moved by a performance of reading on television, begins doing recitations. She lives with her mother on an island in, I’m presuming, […]
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