Mom, Is That You?!

Mom, Is That You?!

111 mins | Drama, Comedy, Family | Sept. 1, 2023

Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of divorce with his wife, and his relationship with his college-student daughter isn’t exactly smooth sailing. One day, he decides to drop in to Tokyo’s old-timey district to visit his mother Fukue. However, things seem a little off. His mother used to be always working with an apron on, but now she’s covered in stylish clothes, looking livelier than ever, and even in love! Akio becomes perplexed, feeling out of place in his own mother’s home, but after encountering kind, warm—and almost nosey—neighbors and a side of his mother he’d never seen before, Akio gradually starts to discover something he had lost sight of.

Mom, Is That You?!

111 mins | Drama, Comedy, Family | Sept. 1, 2023

Mom, Is That You?!
Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of divorce with his wife, and his relationship with his college-student daughter isn’t exactly smooth sailing. One day, he decides to drop in to Tokyo’s old-timey district to visit his mother Fukue. However, things seem a little off. His mother used to be always working with an apron on, but now she’s covered in stylish clothes, looking livelier than ever, and even in love! Akio becomes perplexed, feeling out of place in his own mother’s home, but after encountering kind, warm—and almost nosey—neighbors and a side of his mother he’d never seen before, Akio gradually starts to discover something he had lost sight of.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Shochiku Co., Ltd., Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, tv asahi, Sumitomo Corporation, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Hakuhodo Inc., Amuse, KBC, GyaO, Kodansha, Kinoshita Group, Hokkaido Television Broadcasting Co. (HTB), Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Shôchiku Broadcasting Co., Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, CREATIVE OFFICE CUE, BS Asahi, Shizuoka Asahi Television, Amuse Creative Studio
Original title こんにちは、母さん
Directors Yoji Yamada
Writers Yuzo Asahara, Yoji Yamada, Ai Nagai

Cast

Yo Oizumi

as Kanzaki Akio

Sayuri Yoshinaga

as Kanzaki Fukue

Mei Nagano

as Kanzaki Mai

YOU

as Kotoko Anderson

Moe Edamoto

as Momoe Banba

Kankuro Kudo

as Tomiyuki Kibe

Akira Terao

as Naofumi Ogyu

Hiromasa Taguchi

as Executive Director Kubota

Kaori Nazuka

as Tomomi (voice)

Don Brown

as New Pastor