Mommy or Daddy?

[Available Dec. 10 on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Vimeo, and various digital platforms.] John H. LaDue Jr. and Jennifer LaDue Miyagawa's educational, gut-wrenching, eye-opening, heartbreaking, insightful, surprising, 52-minute documentary that examines the archaic, shocking custodian laws of divorced parents in Japan by focusing on divorced, Japanese English teacher Rie Shishikura who became lonely, angry, despondent, and suicidal when her ex-husband became the sole custodian of their son Hizuki, who she has not seen in 13 years, and refused her visitation rights because Japan has no joint custody laws and consists of artistic animation snippets and candid commentary by Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion chairperson John Gomez, Waseda University Law School professor Masayuki Tanamura, Weeds NPO founder Ayumi Mitsumoto, clinical psychology professor, Akira Aoki at Taisho University Weeds NPO volunteer Yuka Yamada, and Canadian divorcee Mike de Jong.
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