Kakushigoto (2024)

Name: Kakushigoto
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-02-03T06:31:37+01:00

Drama | 128 minutes

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Genre: Drama

Duration: 128 minuten

Alternative titles: Stay Mum / かくしごと

Country: Japan

Directed by: Kôsai Sekine

Stars: Anne Watanabe, Eiji Okuda and Aimi Satsukawa

IMDb score: 7,1 (102)

This movie is not available on US streaming services.

Kakushigoto plot

Chisako is a writer of picture books. She has a long-running conflict with her father Kozo. Despite the cold relationship, she returns to her hometown to care for her father who now has Alzheimer's. One evening she happens to help a boy. The boy no longer knows who he is and Chisako finds traces of physical abuse on the boy. To protect the boy, she pretends to be the boy's mother and goes to live with him. While living together, they develop a true mother and son relationship, but their happiness does not last long.