Forget Love for Now

Forget Love for Now

1937
Drama
1h 13m
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess. Haru's group of friends (which includes the always good Tomio Aoki) are told by their parents to avoid playing with Haru because of his mother's shady job. Meanwhile, at the bar, Yuki asks for increased pay but her bosses' refusal makes her morale lower. In addition, Yuki discovers that Haru is skipping school. She is understandably angry but her son's reasons are logical: no one will play with him. (cinematalk)
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Forget Love for Now

1937
Drama
1h 13m
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Rated 10 Mar 2013
80
91st
Haru's friends abandon him because they assume his mother is a prostitute because she wears fancy perfume. The truth of the matter is of course more complicated -- she is a single mother and must work a shitty job at a hotel where flirting with the customers is part of her duties. Her boss refuses to pay fair wages and turns a blind eye when the customers become physically abusive. Haru fights for his mother's honor in increasingly dramatic and heartbreaking ways as the film goes on. Small gem.
Rated 22 Jan 2023
60
51st
The movie starts off strong and ends strong but is average for most of its runtime.
Rated 24 Feb 2016
9
42nd
Star Rating: ★★★
Rated 28 May 2014
50
77th
The story might be the standard single-mom working as a hostess type storyline, but Shimizu brings the kids point of view. Her son's school buddies finds out she's a "bad woman" and won't play with him no more. It's so innocently done. And we follow the kid's struggles to live with this idea of his mother being "bad". The mother is played by Michiko Kuwano, one of the coolest chicks in Japanese cinema at the time. She helps give this fairly simple production some personality.

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