What's for Dinner, Mom?
2017, Japanese. Directed by Mitsuhito Shiraha.
Two sisters Tae and Yo come back to their old house which is soon to be torn down. Clearing up the family mementos, Tae finds a red box full of recipes and letters written by their mother who died 20 years ago. In these recipes and letters, she finds out how her mother had struggled in her life due to relocation from Japan to Taiwan, the death of her Taiwanese husband, and a battle with cancer. Tae travels to Taiwan to trace her mother's past, reminiscing about the dishes she made for the family.
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- 1h 57m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 11 February 2017
- Original title
- ママ、ごはんまだ？
- Country
- Japan
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What's for Dinner, Mom? (2017) was directed by Mitsuhito Shiraha and stars Haruka Kinami, Izumi Fujimoto, Michiko Kawai.