Yokame no Semi (The Eighth Day)

I thought she was my mother, but actually a kidnapper. . . "Yokame no Semi" is the film based on the award-winning bestseller written by Mitsuyo Kakuta and now available on DVD & Blu-ray for pre-order.

Plot: The story centers on a young woman Erina (Mao Inoue) abducted as an infant by a woman Kiwako (Hiromi Nagasaku) whom she came to believe was her devoted mother. Living out of a suitcase, Kiwako raises the baby for four years, until finally getting caught. Kiwako was actually a woman who had an affair with Erina's father and gave up her baby from the relationship with him. Years later, Erina who has grown up and now 21-year-old college student, has struggled to come to terms with her real parents. Living on her own, Erina falls in love with a married man and becomes pregnant like Kiwako. . .

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