Article: Mother Flew Away as a Kite.(Movie wins an award)(Brief Article)

TV Asahi, Tokyo, Japan

Based on an original story by Akiyuki Nosaka, Mother Flew Away As A Kite is a haunting depiction of the horrors of war, and how a mother and child live everyday in the hope of a peaceful future. Told through animation, this is the story of five year-old Ka-chan who lives with his mother in a Japanese town during the waning days of World War II. Ka-chan's father, a school teacher, is away fighting the war, and the small family must rely on its own resourcefulness and on the help of neighbors for day-to-day survival. Despite the constant threat of bombing, the family maintains a semblance of normalcy, and Ka-chan and his friends fill their ...

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