MOM, IS THAT YOU?!

Akio keeps up a cool professional front as the HR department head of a major company but outside his stressful job he finds additional stress at home: a possible divorce with his wife and a troubled relationship with his university student daughter Mai. Seeking solace he visits his mother Fukue, a maker of traditional Japanese tabi socks. But something has changed with her too: she has traded in her apron for stylish clothes, she is looking livelier than ever, and is even in love! Encountering her kind, warm—and nosey—neighbours and a side of his mother he’d never seen before, Akio gradually starts to discover something he had lost sight of. The new Yoji Yamada film, the 91-year-old master’s 90th work, offers a profound portrayal of the emotions and circumstances that surround the modern-day family.

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