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Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon

20158.31 Season10 EpisodesEnded

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.

Created by Shinji Nojima
Written by Shinji Nojima, Natsuko Ikeda, Daniel Keyes
Produced by Choru Han, Atsushi Sato
NetworksTBS

Top Cast

Tomohisa Yamashita

Tomohisa Yamashita

Sakito Shiratori

Chiaki Kuriyama

Chiaki Kuriyama

Haruka Mochizuki

Masataka Kubota

Masataka Kubota

Ryuichi Yanagawa

Asuka Kudo

Asuka Kudo

Kosuke Hiyama

Fuma Kikuchi

Fuma Kikuchi

Kazushige Kokubo

Mitsuki Tanimura

Mitsuki Tanimura

Rio Kawaguchi

Aya Omasa

Aya Omasa

Mai Koide

Gamon Kaai

Gamon Kaai

Shiro Sugino

Katsuya

Katsuya

Dai Shikanai

Goki Maeda

Goki Maeda

Yuki Kanda

Themes & Keywords

based on novel or bookfriendshipslice of lifetragic pasttearjerkermental healthchild abandonmentintellectual disabilitymedical dramamother son relationshipbrother sister relationshipmedical

About Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon is a drama, sci-fi & fantasy series that first aired in 2015 exploring themes of based on novel or book, friendship, slice of life, tragic past, tearjerker, mental health. Created by Shinji Nojima, it stars Tomohisa Yamashita, Chiaki Kuriyama, Masataka Kubota. 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.

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