This film is adapted from the real events that happened in Tokyo, Japan in 1988. After more than ten years of precipitation and brewing, the director Hirokazu Koreeda finally showed a kind of compassion with amazing talent.
The main content is about a single mother named Keiko Fukushima, who gave birth to four children, the eldest son Akira, 12, Kyoko, 11, Shigeru, 5, and Xiaoxue, 3. The four children, from four unidentified absent fathers. However, she was unable to raise four children and chose to find her own happiness by herself, but left the heavy responsibility of life to her eldest son, Amin, who was only twelve years old.
In addition to A Ming, the other three children are "black households". Everyone around them only knows that a mother lives with a son and his father works overseas, so Keiko goes to work during the day, and A Ming is responsible for the children's daily life and moving. Shi Xiaomao and Xiaoxue were both checked in in their suitcases.
The gentle and indifferent mother spoke in a baby voice and had Barbie-like yellow hair, but her face was no longer young. At home, he will teach Ming to read, tell stories to Xiaoxue, paint his eldest daughter's nails, come back from a date in a good mood, and bring some sushi for the children to eat. At certain moments, he is as warm as a normal family. Ming takes care of the family, calculates the expenses in the notebook every day, and learns to read and write; Jingzi is responsible for washing and drying clothes, and dreams of buying a piano. , take good care of the home. Xiaoxue Ai painted with crayons. After she happily entered this room from the suitcase, she never left. She was only accompanied by a box of crayons.
She ran away from home twice, the first time for about a month, came back to bring gifts to the children, left money, and said that she would be back on the same day at Christmas time, the second time she never came back, she chose to stay in In a certain district of Tokyo, I live with my boyfriend.
After the mother left in pursuit of her love, no one showed that they missed her mother. Ming was reading a book in the store and was mistaken for a thief. In the end, the store sent some buns as compensation. Ming accepted it happily and said thank you. After the Chinese New Year, Ming, the eldest son, pretended to be a mother and went to the post office to send money to each child as a New Year's gift. In the hot summer, the four children were soaked with sweat, and the bangs on Ming's forehead were directly against the skin, and they were tattered. When Ming took out her mother's clothes from the closet and wanted to sell them, Jingzi would not let her die. She should think that her mother would come back. She kept the clothes and her mother's memory would still be there.
As the money left by the mother is decreasing day by day, the life of the four children is becoming more and more difficult. Although Amin is short of money and friends, but he is kind-hearted and does not listen to the encouragement of his friends and goes to the supermarket to steal things
Later, Xiaomao could go out every time in the vending machine to look for the currency that the customer might leave, and dance with joy when she can find it; she saved the chocolate that Amin bought for Xiaoxue; Jingzi stepped on the railing when Xiaoxue stepped on it. When she was taller than her, she brushed off the dirt on the railings when Xiaoxue jumped down; the employees of the department store gave them food from the back of the warehouse every time.
Life goes on. The four of them are still living, and it is obvious that their mother has been away for too long, and their lives are out of order. Xiaoxue died unexpectedly. Ming took the last three coins and went to the phone booth to call his mother, but he didn't get through. Soon after, the mother sent some money and asked Ming to take care of his younger siblings.
At the end of the story, there are still four children. Amin, who died unexpectedly, and a girl he knew, Saki, used a suitcase to transport Xiaoxue to the outskirts to be buried. They still went to the park to wash clothes and carry water. The employees of the department store still regularly gave the children. their food
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