Teaser - Kaasan, Mom’s Life (Mainichi Kaasan)

The official website for Shotaro Kobayashi’s Kaasan, Mom’s Life has been updated with a teaser trailer. The film is based on an autobiographical manga by cartoonist Rieko Saibara which portrays the comical aspects of her family life and stars Kyoko Koizumi alongside her real-life ex-husband, Masatoshi Nagase.

The Japanese film industry apparently can’t get enough of Saibara lately. Last year, IMJ and Avex released an adaptation of “Onnanoko Monogatari”, which starred Eri Fukatsu as a struggling cartoonist who reflects on her childhood friendships, and Kadokawa released an adaptation of Saibara’s first picture book “Ikechan to Boku”.

This December, Bitters End will be releasing “Wandering Home”, a film adaptation of an autobiographical by Saibara’s late ex-husband Yutaka Kamoshida. In fact, if you watch the trailer for that film, you can actually see a scene where Tadanobu Asano’s character drunkenly rips up some pages of a manga his wife is working on; that was based on a real-life incident that led to their divorce and the manga very well may have been Mainichi Kaasan. Very movie meta!

Shochiku will be releasing “Kaasan, Mom’s Life” in Japan on February 5, 2011.