TRUE MOTHERS (12A)
Preview
Director Naomi Kawase’s tender drama focussing on middle class husband and wife Kiyokazu (Arata Iura) and Satoko (Hiromi Nagasaku), who are desperate to conceive.
Their efforts are fruitless, but a ray of hope shines on them in the form of an adoption agency run by the mercurial Mrs Asami (Miyoko Asada). She delivers a baby boy named Asato into their lives, who is being given up for adoption by teenage mother Hikari (Aju Makita).
A few years later, the couple’s picture-perfect life with Asato is shaken to its core and fiercely protective Satoko prepares to go to war to protect her family.
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