Mother

This is a story half told in flashback about a husband and wife who are farmers in Tohoku region in Japan with their five young children, who are typically loud kids. She was strict with them, as you can see. The husband ends up becoming paralyzed so the wife has to devote all her time to them, ostensibly telling the kids she is longer their mom but they are on their own. The narrator, one of the children (Hisako), now grown, is getting married and goes back to see her parents. The story has a few rough moments, but its fairly well told. In a sense its all about choices and the things many children take for granted. I'm giving it an 8 because its not very long, it flows well and the acting is uniformly good. Not for everyone, but worth watching.