Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad [2007]
Leaving her alcoholic husband, Eiko takes their son Masaya away from
Tokyo and back to her hometown in a Kyushu rural mining community. She
toils to support him though many years of schooling even after he wastes
his time while studying art in a Tokyo university. After graduation he
struggles to find work and finally pulls his life together for his
mother's sake, ultimately ending up with multiple jobs as an illustrator
and even as the host of a sexually-themed talk show on radio. When Eiko
becomes ill with cancer, Masaya invites her to live with him in back in
Tokyo where the roles of support are reversed.