
Release Date
Original Release
May 2, 1986
0h 27m
Hideo, It's Me, Mama (1986)
Overview
HIDEO, It's Me, Mama is a psychological melodrama that introduces narrative and structural devices that are integral to Idemitsu's work. Exploring the flawed universe of the contemporary Japanese family, she focuses on a woman's identity as mother through mother-child and husband-wife relationships. Hideo, a young man living away from his parents, is kept under constant surveillance by his doting mother via an omnipresent television monitor. In a cogent metaphor for familial relations in the media-saturated culture of contemporary Japan, Mama can only communicate with her beloved, absent son through the video screen. Idemitsu's poignant irony is embodied in the scene in which Mama, blind to her husband's needs, caresses Hideo's video image. (Electronic Arts Intermix)
Director

Mako Idemitsu
Department: Directing
Cast
Atsumi Sakashita
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0Hiroshi Kawabe
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Sukekuni Torii
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Sumiko Nakari
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