Mother (1963 film)

Mother (母, Haha) is a 1963 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō.

Her son Toshio is going blind and diagnosed with a brain tumour, an aftereffect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Yoshie refuses, and instead arranges a marriage with another single parent, Tajima from Korea, on the condition that he pays for the surgery.

Haruo, a barman who is repeateadly involved in fights over women, is later killed by a rival.

[3][4] Mother was screened at a 2012 retrospective on Shindō and Kōzaburō Yoshimura in London, organised by the British Film Institute and the Japan Foundation.