Haha: Kobayashi Takiji no Haha no Monogatari (2017)

Haha: Kobayashi Takiji no Haha no Monogatari 2017 / 母 小林多喜二の母の物語 2017 / Great Mother Takiji Kobayashi's Mother , はは こばやしたきじのははのものがたり

Seki was born into an impoverished family in Shakanai Village in Akita Prefecture and was married off to the Kobayashi family at age fifteen. Seki couldn't write, but she was a kind mother. Her second son Takiji gets a job at a bank, but gradually becomes involved in the labor movement. His novel about the plight of laborers leads to his being pegged as a dangerous element, and he dies at the age of twenty-nine due to torture by the Special Higher Police. (Source: JFDB) ~~ Adapted from the novel ‟Mother‟ (母) by Miura Ayako (三浦綾子).