Chronicle Of My Mother

Chronicle Of My Mother follows a novelist, Kosaku Igami (Koji Yakusho), as he struggles to reconcile what is real and what he thinks is real about his relationship with his mother (Kirin Kiki) in the last years of her life. Shortly after the death of his father, Kosaku's mother is diagnosed with dementia, and he is saddled with her long-term care. But it is during her wanderings (both physical and imaginary) that their painful history is fully revealed.