
Angry Son - Japan Foundation Tour
TBC 112 mins
Jungo, a high school student living in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, has a Filipino mother who works at a Filipina hostess bar. His mother has never told him about his father, and the only connection he has to his father is through monthly child support payments. Jungo is homosexual and has a boyfriend, Yusuke (18). Even though Yusuke wanted to form a partnership with him, he was reluctant to do so because of his background.
One day, his mother, Reina, brings her boyfriend home, saying she wants to remarry. Jungo doesn't want to live with a stranger, so he decides to find his real father.
Containing a LGBTQ issue, subject matter which is rapidly surging in current Japanese cinema, the director IIZUKA Kasho who is also transgender shines a spot light on a corner of society where some people feel marginalised in this revalatory film