A Hundred Flowers

When Izumi visits his mother Yuriko, a former piano teacher, at home, he discovers that she has gone missing. Panicking, he searches the area around the apartment building for her, until he finally finds her confused in a playground. His fears that Yuriko is suffering from a progressive form of dementia are confirmed. The difficult relationship with his mother, burdened by events in the past, is put to a new test. The necessary institutionalization does little to improve the relationship. When Izumi finds an old diary among his mother's personal belongings, he begins to find understanding for her past actions. In his memory, he relives a series of disturbing events from the time of his childhood, without which he will hardly succeed in finding closeness to the distant person of his mother. While the past becomes more and more present to him, it begins to disappear more and more for his mother.

Genki KAWAMURA, known as a book author and producer, chose to adapt his own novel for his first directorial work. His film won him the Best Director Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The film was also screened at numerous international festivals.