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Kabei: Our Mother
Directed by
Yoji Yamada
Not Rated
2008
2h 13m
Drama
,
Family
7.6
88%
80%
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In 1930s Japan, a mother endures hardship to raise her children when her academic husband is marked as an enemy of the state and imprisoned.
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Cast of Kabei: Our Mother
Mirai Shida
Hatsuko Nogami
Tadanobu Asano
Yamazaki Toru
Chieko Baisho
Hatsuko Nogami
Denden
Fukuda
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Kayo Nogami
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Shigeru Nogami
Keiko Toda
Teruyo Nogami
Daisuke Gori
Toru
Koen Kondo
Komiyama
Rei Dan
Hisako
Hideji Ōtaki
Kabe
Tokie Hidari
Fumi Fujioka
Takashi Sasano
Detective Kosuge
Mizuho Suzuki
Hajime Nikaido
Makoto Akatsuka
Policeman
Tsurube Shofukutei
Senkichi Fujioka
Miku Satô
Teruyo Nogami
Bandō Mitsugorō X
Shigeru Nogami
Umenosuke Nakamura
Kyutaro Fujioka
Kabei: Our Mother Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Enriched by Mutsuo Naganuma's velvety photography, the director's restrained emotional grammar is surprisingly affecting.
Spectrum Culture
David Harris
Despite its slow pace and over length, Kabei: Our Mother presents a poignant portrait of Japan in the 1940s.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
For those who prefer movies of substance, there are alternatives -- and I don't mean Terminator Salvation.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Partly because they're relatively rare, homefront movies usually offer a fresh perspective on the tragedies of World War II. That's the case once more with Kabei: Our Mother, a sad and stirring drama from the other side of the Pacific.
Filmcritic.com
Don Willmott
Painful though it may be, Kb is finely crafted and totally enjoyable. Watch
Slant Magazine
Henry Stewart
Yamada and crew almost go so far as to suggest that the Japanese had their A-bombs coming to them, if it weren't for the achingly sympathetic family at the film's core.
Boxoffice Magazine
Richard Mowe
Delicately observed.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
[An] unpretentious, engrossing, well-nuanced and tender drama brimming with a raw and powerfully moving performance by Sayuri Yoshinaga.
New York Press
Simon Abrams
This is not a story about lamenting the inevitability of time but rather of living in denial.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
Old workhorse Yamada delivers the solar plexus emotional hit of a tragic telegram with precision that shows a lifetime's practice, turning Hallmarkisms sublime.
The Hollywood Reporter
Maggie Lee
Hits all the right spots to make you cry like chopping onions.
Variety
Russell Edwards
Shows the Shochiku journeyman's prowess in hitting the right buttons to move Japanese auds.
Oregonian
Stan Hall
Yoji Yamada's historical drama about a Japanese family's travails during wartime imperial rule teeters on the edge of melodrama, but thankfully hews to a stable and surprisingly poignant path.
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Louis Proyect
Deeply powerful study of a family trying to survive repression and poverty in wartime Japan with much in common--unexpectedly--with the director's Samurai trilogy.
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