MY MOTHER'S EYES

By Takeshi KUSHIDA

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Fantasy - Completed 2023

Both Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists. One day, they are involved in a traffic accident
and Hitomi loses her sight. She wears camera-equipped contact lenses and Eri, injured and
hospitalized, wears VR goggles, and the two share one vision.

Festivals
& Awards

Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2023
Selection
London FrightFest 2023
Selection
Screamfest 2023
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Freak Show Horror Film Festival 2023
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Trieste Science+Fiction Festival 2023
Selection
Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival 2023
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FilmQuest Film Festival 2023
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Lusca Fantastic Film Fest 2023
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    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Fantasy, Thriller, Horror
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Takeshi KUSHIDA
    • Producer(s)
    • Shin NISHIMURA (Pyramid Film), Mone SHITARA (Pyramid Film)
    • Synopsis
    • Hitomi ( 37 ), a cello instructor and single mother, is asked by her daughter Eri ( 17 ), her sole other family member, to perform with her as a duet at her school concert. They perform magnificently, but during the performance, Eri suddenly senses through her Mother’s tone and playing that she had always regretted giving birth to her. On the drive back home, Eri confronts Hitomi about this, which upsets the Mother and driver so much that she causes a major car accident, from which they emerge badly injured. Hitomi loses her eyesight, Eri is now paralyzed from the neck down. Hitomi in desperation finds a new, still experimental artificial eye in the form of a new contact lens device that restores her vision. Eri meanwhile gets depressed in her paralyzed state and despairs for euthanasia. Hitomi comes up with the idea of helping her daughter live a quality life again by combining her new contact lens eyes with VR goggles connecting their two eyesights through web transmission, and Eri can once
      again enjoys life by moving around the world through her mother’s eyes, and experiencing even the joys of making love to a man...