Mother Game

Kanbara Kiko is a divorcee and raises her 5-year-old son alone. To open a box lunch food store, she moves to her grandfather's house. She tries to enroll her son Haruto into nursery school there, but a person in charge of the district office tells her Haruto can't attend immediately. Kiko, busy to open her box lunch food store by next month, finds herself in a predicament with her son not having supervision by then. At this time, a director of a kindergarten school, Fune Naraoka, talks to Kiko.

★ 6/10 · 1 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• Fumino KimuraKiko Kanbara
• Kyoko HasegawaSatoko Yano
• Shihori KanjiyaYuki Kamiya
• Yumi AdachiMidori Goto
• Rei DanMarie Odadera
• Mitsuyoshi ShinodaKyoji Kamiya
• KanonReina Yano
• Ayumu Mochizuki

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