Flowers for Algernon: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: Flowers for Algernon
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2015-04-10
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-06-12
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Nagoya Broadcasting Network
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 55 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 4739

Cast and credited roles

• Tomohisa Yamashita — Shiratori Sakuto
• Chiaki Kuriyama — Mochizuki Haruka
• Aya Ōmasa — Koide Mai
• Mitsuki Tanimura — Kawaguchi Rio
• Asuka Kudo — Hiyama Kosuke
• Masataka Kubota — Yanagawa Ryuichi

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-04-10; final listed air date 2015-06-12.

Source and licence

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