電影---東京鐵塔-我的母親父親---英文資料

Tôkyô tawâ: Okan to boku to, tokidoki, oton (2007)
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (International: English title)

Joji Matsuoka

Writers:Lily Franky (novel)
Suzuki Matsuo (screenplay)

Release Date:15 November 2007 (Hong Kong)
Genre:Drama

Movie unfolds from a young man's recollections of his wild painter father and his hard working mother. His earliest memories are when his mother got fed up with the father's drunken antics and brought him back to her small mining home town to live. Growing up in a fading mining town with summer visits to his father he decides to become an artist like his father. With a little training from his father and unquestioning love and support from his mother he makes it into a regional high school known for its art program. Here he starts a wastrel student life that he continues through high school and even into college in Tokyo. All the while he is living off the hard earned money his mother keeps sending him.

As the story unfolds in retrospect, through the parallel current narration we learn that his mother is ill and in a hospital. The narration of the past arrives at the point of his having spent the money for going to his maternal grandmother's funeral on partying when he didn't even have rent money. Finding himself with his few posessions out on the street he meets up with a fellow art school student who has graduated but also not yet able to support himself. They team up and eventually are able to sell some illustrations and get off the street.

While his career is starting his mother's health has been failing. She recovers from a bout of throat cancer but with unfirm health she has lost her little restaurant and can't even keep a job at another restaurant because of days needed for rest or treatment.

Cast (Credited cast)
Jô Odagiri ... Boku
Kirin Kiki ... Okan
Yayako Uchida ... Okan
Takako Matsu ... Mizue
Kaoru Kobayashi ... Oton

Runtime:Japan:142 min
Country:Japan
Language:Japanese
Color:Color