International Film Showcase at Orinda Theatre

Chronicle of My Mother

A West Coast Premiere from Japan

Masato Harada's moving period drama about the relationship between a self-centered writer and his ageing mother draws on an autobiographical novel by Yasushi Inoue. Kosaku, married with four daughters, is a successful writer and tyrannical husband and father. When his mother begins to display signs of dementia, duty demands that he take care of her. She moves in and, as her grip on reality loosens, facts about the past come to light.