[KineJapan] TV-drama Ashita, mama ga inai

[Dolores Martinez]

Hi Aaron, I had a student working on the representations of single mothers
especially in film and television. I could put ypu in touch with her if
you'd like some general information. Yours, Lola

On Friday, 7 March 2014, Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:

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> Related to this, I wonder if anyone has opinions on Dare mo shiranai and
> if there was similar reception to this - i.e. controversy. Of course it's a
> different case since it was a movie and so presumably didn't have sponsors
> like a TV show would. Anyway, it's interesting to me because I heard that
> was also "based on a true story" (is that right?). I'm not a film expert by
> any means, so I hope this isn't an ignorant question. I feel like the issue
> of the portrayal of child-rearing responsibility being solely the mother's
> is similar between the two but I haven't seen the movie in quite a while.
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> There were some criticisms of Dare mo shiranai, but the ones I read (in
> Eiga geijutsu, etc.), had more to do with how Koreeda was fudging with
> reality while still advertising it as "based on a true story." It was not
> about problems in the representation of such abandoned children or the
> services that do or don't take care of them.
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> Aaron Gerow
> Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
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