¡Leonie
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[Machine Translation] The turbulent life of Leonie, mother of the world-famous sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Hisako Matsui, the director of "Yukie" and "Orihume," which drew a total of 2 million viewers, set her dream in motion and spent eight years to realize this Japan-US co-production. The film depicts the life of a mother who lived gracefully for 59 years, quietly accepting the fate of being tossed between Japan and the U.S. --New York City at the end of the 19th century. Leonie Gilmore, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, a prestigious women's college, is teaching, unable to give up her dream of becoming a poet or an editor. One day, she meets Yone Noguchi, a mysterious young poet from Japan. The English poems that resulted from their collaboration were successful in the American and British literary circles, and Leonie's fascination with poetry soon turned into a love affair. However, as soon as Yone was informed that Leonie was pregnant, she returned to Japan. Quietly and alone, Leonie decides to give birth to a mixed-race child while still unmarried. She gives birth in California to avoid publicity, and the mother and child travel to Tokyo in the late Meiji period to escape the growing yellow scars of the Russo-Japanese War. There, the mother desperately tried to provide her child with the rich and beautiful culture of Japan. Now, however, she must return her child to the U.S. before he is drafted into the Japanese army. There is only one path for her mixed-race child with extraordinary artistic talents........
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making-of, interview, theatrical trailers
Original Release Year: 2010
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