2020 · drama · crime · family
Mother
Directed by Tatsushi Ōmori2h 7m2020
Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to school. Except raising the little half-sister, his rock-bottom life seems to have no end.
Our read: Mother (2020) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · crime · family entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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