To Mom, With Love

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STORY

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Three sisters bring their mother on a hot spring trip to show their appreciation. The eldest sister, Yayoi, has a complex about her beautiful sisters, while the second sister, Manami, hates her mother for not being able to show her true potential because she has always been compared to the eldest sister, who is an honor student. The third sister, Kiyomi, observes the two with a cold eye. The three sisters all have one thing in common: they don't want to live a life like their mother. In a room at the hot spring resort, the three sisters explode with complaints, which gradually escalate into a battlefield where they start insulting each other. Then Takahiro, Kiyomi's boyfriend, who she had planned to introduce to her as a surprise, appears, and the story takes an unexpected turn.

CAST

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Noriko EGUCHI
Chika UCHIDA
Kotone FURUKAWA
Aoyama Hall Winning

STAFF

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Original story and script: Maki PEYANNE
Cinematography: Shogo UENO
Lighting: Junichi AKATSU
Art: Tomoharu NAKAMAE
Sound: Masamitsu NAKAMURA
Editing: Ryuji MIYAJIMA
Music: Mamiko HIRAI

Info

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Year of production: 2024
Country: Japan
Running time: 106min
Language: Japanese

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Director

Ryosuke HASHIGUCHI

Born July 13, 1962, in Nagasaki Prefecture. In 1992, his first theatrically released film, "A Touch of Fever," was a huge hit that broke theater records. His second film, "Like Grains of Sand" (1995), won numerous awards, including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Grand Prix at the Dunkirk International Film Festival, and the Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and also won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay in Japan. His third film, "Hush!" (2002), was entered in the Director's Fortnight at the 54th Cannes Film Festival and was released in over 69 countries around the world. It won numerous awards, including the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Best Film Award. His fourth film, "All Around Us" (2008), his first new work in six years since "Hush!", depicts a ten-year relationship between a married couple who never leave each other no matter what, and has been praised by many in various circles as "a new frontier for Director HASHIGUCHI," and has won numerous awards, including the Hochi Film Award for Best Director and the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actress. In 2013, he released the 62-minute feature film "Zentai." His first feature film in seven years since "All Around Us," "Three Stories of Love" (2015) won numerous awards as a representative masterpiece of Japanese cinema in 2015, including the 89th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Japanese Films, the 70th Mainichi Film Awards Japanese Film Grand Prize, and the 58th Blue Ribbon Award for Best Director. "To Mom, With Love" is his first feature film in nine years since "Three Stories of Love."