Big Mama
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- Movie: Big Mama
- Romaji: Kah-chan
- Japanese: かあちゃん
- Director: Kon Ichikawa
- Writer: Hiroshi Takeyama, Natto Wada, Shugoro Yamamoto
- Producer: Masaya Nakamura, Yoshinobu Nishioka, Naoto Sarukawa
- Cinematographer: Yukio Isohata
- Release Date: November 10, 2001
- Runtime: 96 min.
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- Distributor: Toho
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
The setting is Edo in the late Tempo Era (1830-44), in the grip of an economic depression after a series of failed government reforms. Sound familiar? A strong-willed matriarch (Keiko Kishi) struggles to keep her brood of five -- including three grown sons and a pretty, marriageable daughter -- on the road to financial survival, if not success. She has also given them a strong moral core, as evidenced by their collective effort to save a friend of the oldest son from ruin.
She faces a sterner test, however, when a thief (Ryuji Harada) invades her humble abode and demands her money -- including the coins she and her children have scraped together for the oldest son's friend. Instead of calling on her sleeping boys to beat the invader to a pulp, she sweet-talks him out of his demand -- and invites him to join the family. The thief, a young first-timer driven to this desperate strait by poverty, accepts her offer, though he can't help feeling uneasy about the secret he has to keep from his new "cousins," especially the daughter. -- Japan Times
Cast
- Keiko Kishi - Okatsu
- Ryuuji Harada - Yukichi
- Shoichi Ozawa - Landlord
- Kanae Katsuno - Masae
- Tsuyoshi Ujiki - Ichita
- Isao Bitoh - Gen-san
- Yuta Yamazaki - Sannosuke
- Masaki Iizumi - Jiro
- Saburo Ishikura - Kumagoro
- Baijaku Nakamura
- Fujio Tsuneta
- Ryudo Uzaki - Doshin
- Akio Yokoyama
Awards
- "Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role" (Keiko Kishi) - 2002 (25th) Japan Academy Prize - March 8, 2002
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