The typical elements that are in a fantasy genre is having magic or something that cannot be explained using science.
It was popularized through Japanese Manga, along with fan writing sites.
This is a fictional disease where there are two characters, one is the victim, the other is the love interest.
The disease is contracted through strong love (one that they believe is one-sided). Inside the victim, a "flower" begins to develop within their lungs, leading them to cough up blood, flower buds, petals, and the entire flower (after some time, typically months after gaining the disease), until they cannot cough the flowers up anymore. When they reach that point, they will choke and suffocate on the flowers, leading to their death.
The flowers are the favorite flower of the love interest.
There are two ways to get rid of the disease:
1. Confess your feelings to the person they are in love with
2. Have the flower in their lungs be surgically removed, however, if they decide this then they will never feel or have any type of romantic feelings ever again.
This disease takes over months to develop, I don't have the time to do that in 5 minutes. I may add short, flashback clips within the film to show the start and slow progression of the disease. That would be coughing up the aging flowers and to show how consistent this disease is.
This is a short film that uses the same trope, however, its's a music video and the concept of Hanahaki isn't strong, other than the coughing up of flowers.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10931712/
Another film that uses the same Hanahaki genre, however, this one is more of a documentary rather than a story.
https://archive.org/details/the-human-cost-of-hanahaki-pt-1
(Both of the links are not linking, however they can be copied and pasted and it will work)
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