Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
• January 26th, 2008 • 2h 13min
Family, Drama
Overview
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazaki, but her husband does not return. WWII breaks out and casts dark shadows on the entire country, but Kayo still tries to keep her cheerful determination, and sustain the family with her love. This is an emotional drama of a mother and an eternal message for peace.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Anything For A Dream
Released on:
Drama, Mystery
Stuck in a decollate life and a dead marriage a father goes to any lengths to continue to dream a li...
Making Love
Released on: 2000-02-11
Drama
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and st...
Operation Mincemeat
Released on: 2022-04-01
War, History, Drama
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a...
Radio Days
Released on: 1987-01-30
Comedy, Drama
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...
Pigs and Battleships
Released on: 1961-01-21
Crime, Drama
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
MacArthur
Released on: 1977-07-15
Drama, History, War
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after h...
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
Released on: 2004-05-31
Drama, War, History, TV Movie
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of D...
O Anel de Eva
Released on: 2024-06-13
Drama
After her adoptive father's death, Eva receives a reliquary with mysterious objects hinting at her o...
Sea of Sand
Released on: 1958-11-04
Drama, War
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of...
Lady Maiko
Released on: 2014-09-13
Comedy, Drama, Music
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...
Blossoms Bloom
Released on: 2014-04-05
Drama
Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to s...
Snow on The Blades
Released on: 2014-09-20
History, Action, Drama
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...
Fires on the Plain
Released on: 1959-11-03
Drama, War
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp...
To Live
Released on: 1994-05-18
Drama, Romance, War
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as thei...
Ivan's Childhood
Released on: 1962-05-09
Drama, War
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the ...
Geronimo
Released on: 2025-01-10
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When Lewis's life is upended by his father's death, his mother, Julie, only seems to make matters wo...
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Released on: 1976-02-04
Comedy, Drama
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the boh...
Too Late the Hero
Released on: 1970-05-20
Drama, Action, War
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island...
Truth & Treason
Released on: 2025-10-16
History, Drama, Thriller
When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. Wit...
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Released on: 2017-09-23
Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Family
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They...