Mako Idemitsu – Hideo, It’s Me, Mama (1983)
letterboxd:
HIDEO, It’s Me, Mama is a psychological melodrama that introduces narrative and structural devices that are integral to Idemitsu’s work. Exploring the flawed universe of the contemporary Japanese family, she focuses on a woman’s identity as mother through mother-child and husband-wife relationships. Hideo, a young man living away from his parents, is kept under constant surveillance by his doting mother via an omnipresent television monitor. In a cogent metaphor for familial relations in the media-saturated culture of contemporary Japan, Mama can only communicate with her beloved, absent son through the video screen. Idemitsu’s poignant irony is embodied in the scene in which Mama, blind to her husband’s needs, caresses Hideo’s video image. (Electronic Arts Intermix)
More info:
Idemitsu-san’s website explaining why she made the short: https://makoidemitsu.com/work/hideo-its-me-mama/?lang=en
Hideo, It's Me, Mama (1983) Mako Idemitsu.mp4
General
Container: MPEG-4
Runtime: 27mn 09s
Size: 178 MiB
DXVA: Compatible
Minimum settings: Met
Video
Codec: AVC
Resolution: 640x480
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 29.970 fps
Bit rate: 775 kb/s
Audio
2.0ch AAC LC @ 132 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/9F7C98850370449/Hideo,_It’s_Me,_Mama_(1983)_Mako_Idemitsu.mp4
Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English
Many thanks to @Evan for this copy
Thanks Evan & COTW!