Remembering The Cosmos Flower (1999) Rating: Starring: Megumi Matsushita, Mari Natsuki, Akane Oda, Kai Shishido Director: Junichi Suzuki Category: Drama, Foreign Studio: Vanguard Subtitles: English Length: 103 mins     "Exquisite, the camerawork is among the most beautiful I've ever seen"-LA Weekly Akiko, a high school student and her mother return to their home in a small town in Japan, after seven years in South America.The teenage girl contracted the AIDS virus from a blood transfusion.Before they even arrive, the whole town knows and fears that they will be exposed to the deadly disease.Thus begins beautiful Akiko's odyssey to her place of childhood.As Akiko copes with her illness, her childhood friend Natsumi transforms her fear of the sickness into solid support and protection.Everyone, including the village community, learns a lesson or two about their own shortcomings, prejudism and ignorance.They mature and come together as a community when Akiko passes away one day.