Oriume
Oriume
- Release Date
- March, 16th, 2002
- Running Time
- 111 min
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- -
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- HARADA Mieko ── Tomoe
- YOSHIYUKI Kazuko ── Masako
- Tommys' MASA ── Yuzo
[ Staff ]
- MATSUI Hisako ── Screenplay
- SHIRATORI Akane ── Screenplay
- KOSUGA Motoko ── Original Story
- KAWAKAMI Koichi ── Cinematography
- KAWASAKI Masahiro ── Music
[ Production Company ]
ESSEN Communications
[ Story ]
After depicting an elderly couple's quiet life in Yukie, director Matsui Hisako follows an old woman who sticks out amidst the fast-paced rhythm of young people's lives.
Masako (Yoshiyuki Kazuko) paints oil paintings in the park, watched over by Tomoe (Harada Mieko), but it had taken the two much conflict to come to terms with Masako's senility. Masako used to live by herself, but developed Alzheimer's right after moving in with her son, Yuzo, and his family. The daughter-in-law, Tomoe, engages a helper for Masako, and decides to put her mother-in-law in a group home after visiting there with Yuzo. On the day of Masako's move, Tomoe hears the story of the old woman's life for the first time: how Masako's mother abandoned her baby, but told her the story of the broken plum branch (oriume); Masako's adoption by another family; her work as a seamstress; and how she raised four children on her own after her husband died. After she hears her mother-in-law's story, Tomoe decides to keep Masako at home, and enrolls her in a nearby temple's daycare program. There, Masako begins to paint, and Tomoe pedals up the hill in the sunset to collect Masako in the park.
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