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39 Ratings

TOKYO TOWER: MOM AND ME, AND SOMETIMES DAD

Tôkyô tawâ: Okan to boku to, tokidoki, oton

Directed by Joji Matsuoka
Japan, 2007
Drama
  • 142142 minutes

Synopsis

Leaving her alcoholic husband, Eiko takes their son Masaya away from Tokyo and back to her hometown in a Kyushu rural mining community. She toils to support him though many years of schooling even after he wastes his time while studying art in a Tokyo university…

Synopsis

Leaving her alcoholic husband, Eiko takes their son Masaya away from Tokyo and back to her hometown in a Kyushu rural mining community. She toils to support him though many years of schooling even after he wastes his time while studying art in a Tokyo university…