Nippon no obaachan

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.

• Tadashi ImaiDirector
• Yōko MizukiScreenplay

• Chōchō MiyakoSato
• Tanie KitabayashiKumi
• Chōko IidaHana
• Kumeko UrabeWaka
• Izumi HaraHatsu
• Sachiko MuraseCast
• Teruko KishiCast
• Chieko HigashiyamaCast
• Takahiro TamuraCast
• Junzaburō BanCast
• Tatsuo SaitōCast
• Masao OdaCast