Confessions of a Teenage Mother (1977) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1977 · 77 mins · Japanese

Directed by

Toshiya Fujita

Starring

Kunio Shimizu, Ittoku Kishibe, Tokuko Watanabe, Eimei Esumi, Yuya Uchida, Aoi Nakajima

After dropping out of school and giving birth at sixteen, Mako is forced to live with her baby’s unreliable father. She juggles night shifts at a bar to scrape together money while clashing with her conservative parents, searching for a way to survive and define herself in a harsh world.