Tokyo Tawa / Tokyo Tower ~ Mom & Me, And Sometimes Dad DVD (ENG SUB)

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Japanese

English / Traditional Chinese / off

1 DVDs Box Set (NTSC - ALL Region)

Hirosue Ryoko, Tsukaji Muga & Tanaka Yuko

2007 Release

Lily Franky's bestselling Tokyo Tower - Okan to Boku to Tokidoki Oton has already spawned a feature film starring Odagiri Joe, a drama special, and a TV series. The first of these popular adaptations is the Fuji TV special originally aired on November 18, 2006. As the title Tokyo Tower - Mom and I and Sometimes Dad suggests, the drama focuses on a touching mother-son relationship amidst the lights of 1970s Tokyo. Without bells or whistles, Lily Franky's autobiography has sold over two million copies in Japan on the force of its nostalgic, heartwarming story of family and romance. TV personality Oizumi Yo, particularly well-known in his native Hokkaido, stars as the drama's "Boku", alongside talented veteran actress Tanaka Yuko as his mother and popular actress/singer Hirosue Ryoko as his girlfriend.

After moving from the coal mining town of Fukuoka to Tokyo to study art, Masaya (Oizumi Yo) finds himself fumbling in life, unable to set a direction for himself. Masaya takes after both his parents, and is often balancing both the good and the bad he has inherited from his strong, gentle mother (Tanaka Yuko) and reckless, irresponsible father. Lost in the bright lights of the big city, he struggles to make a living. Everything changes one day when he finds out that his mother has been diagnosed with cancer...