Satoko Watabe, who calls herself Erica was organizing business support meetings, and collecting a fortune with a fictional investment story, under the order of her lover Ikuo Hirasawa. But she…

Fulfilling his filmmaking dream of 40 years, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s luminous new feature “Hanagatami” delivers a timeless story of the pureness of youth beset by the chaos of war.