Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (movie)
東京タワー オカンとボクと、時々、オトン- User score: 7
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Jōji Matsuoka
- Production companies: Shochiku, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Little More, Eisei Gekijo, Mitsui & Co., dentsu, Bandai, Yomiuri Shimbun Company, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Gunpowder, Film Makers, Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Hiroshima Telecasting, Fukuoka Broadcasting System, Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 4/14/2007
- Run time: 142 min.
Movie description
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
