Tragedy of Japan

Asia Exclusive release directed by Keisuke Kinoshita (Osaka Story) starring Keiko Awaji (Inugami, Stray Dog), Yoko Katsuragi (Scandal) and Yuko Mochizuki (Red Lion, Kaidan). Widowed during the Pacific War, she has provided for her children over the turbulent years though the few meager and often disreputable enterprises afforded her gender and social class, black market profiteering of household goods, accepting a benefactor's proposition, working as a prostitute in the pleasure quarters. Now aging and estranged from her adult children. However, she's devoted, idealized images of her children's welfare. NTSC/All Code (printed as region 3). Letter Box. Approximately. 115 minutes. Dolby Digital Stereo. B/W. Panorama Ent. 2003.