‘A Hundred Flowers’: A sumptuous drama of forgiving and forgetting

Genki Kawamura has the sort of resume that might make anybody really feel insufficient. As a producer, he’s been concerned with a few of the buzziest Japanese films of the previous 20 years — from “Prepare Man” to “Confessions” to “Your Identify.” When he turned his hand to writing, his debut novel, “If Cats Disappeared from the World,” turned a world bestseller.

“A Hundred Flowers” marks Kawamura’s debut function as a director — and it will be good to report that he’d lastly discovered one thing he didn’t do effectively. So it’s with a heavy coronary heart that I confess: This is likely one of the most engrossing big-screen experiences I’ve had all yr.