Chronicle of My Mother

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.

• Release date
• April 28, 2012
• Runtime
• 119 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Masato Harada

Cast

Koji Yakusho Kosaku Kirin Kiki Yae Aoi Miyazaki Kotoko Kaho Minami Kuwako Midoriko Kimura Shigako Rie Mimura Ikuko Akiko Kikuchi Noriko Takahiro Miura Segawa