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International Perspective

True Mothers

Asa Ga Kuru

Japan 2020 Fiction cor 140 min.

After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, and convinced by the discourse of an adoption association, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a baby boy. A few years later, their parenthood is shaken by a threatening unknown girl, Hikari, who pretends to be the child’s biological mother. Satoko decides to confront Hikari directly.

Presented at Toronto and San Sebastián film festivals.

Japan female directors motherhood family drama adoption literary adaptation

direção

Naomi Kawase

roteiro

Naomi Kawase, Izumi Takahashi

fotografia

Yuta Tsukinaga, Naoki Sakakibara

montagem

Tina Baz, Yoichi Shibuya

elenco

Arata Iura, Miyoko Asada, Hiroko Nakajima, Hiromi Nagasaku, Taketo Tanaka

produtor

Yumiko Takebe

produzido por

Kinoshita Group

distribuição

California Filmes