1941年春,日本佐贺县的唐津市。与姑姑江马圭子(常盘贵子 饰)一家生活在一起的17岁青年榊山俊彦(洼冢俊介 饰)迎来了新的学期。无忧无虑的青葱岁月,他每天都和好友们过着快乐的日子。这其中,拥有如希腊神话中男神一般健美身材的美少年鹈饲(满岛真之介 饰)、有如虚无僧似的吉良(长冢圭史 饰)和搞笑吵闹的阿苏(柄本时生 饰)是他最好的朋友。俊彦有一个堂妹,那是圭子姑妈的女儿美那(矢作穂香 饰)。美那患有肺病,弱不禁风,苍白的一张脸愈加楚楚动人,恰恰令处在青春期的俊彦为之倾倒。与此同时,他的身边还环绕着亚音(山崎紘菜 饰)、千岁(门胁麦 饰)等美丽女孩。少男少女们嬉笑打闹,在青春的边界线上肆意奔跑。然而当战争的钟声响起,他们那纯如白纸的青春便破碎成片,飘散空中Based on Kazuo Dan's 1937 novella, Director Nobuhiko Obayashi, whose surreal phenomenon 'House (Hausu)' became an international cult classic, achieves his filmmaking dream of forty years with his new feature 'Hanagatami'. In the spring of 1941, sixteen-year-old Toshihiko leaves Amsterdam to attend school in Karatsu, a small town on the western coast of Japan, where his aunt Keiko cares for his ailing cousin Mina. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's inescapable gravitational pull. With his memories as a survivor of World War II echoing in the uncertainty of world events unfolding today, director Obayashi returns us to 1941, a pivotal time for Japan, as the unstoppable momentum of war forcibly seized the lives of youth away to battlefields where they disappeared forever. In dazzling, full-bloom Obayashi style, 'Hanagatami' captures the passion, innocence, and struggle of the ...