Morning is Coming
by D
About This Novel
A middle-aged couple who cannot have children vs. A teenage mother who cannot afford to raise a child. Underneath the delicate emotional waves, what is surging are hoarse shouts: "What is blood relationship", "What is family", "What is mother"? The Kurihara couple were over 40 years old. After two attempts at in vitro fertilization ended in failure, they adopted a newborn baby boy through a private charity organization and named them "Chao Dou". The couple regarded Chao Dou as their own child and raised him carefully. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye Chao Dou is at the age of going to kindergarten. The family of three was enjoying family happiness, and thought that such a happy time would last forever. But suddenly one day, Mrs. Kurihara received a strange phone call, and a woman's voice came from the other end of the phone: "I hope you can return the child to me."... It is both a cruel youth story and a profound family ethics drama. It also reveals the difficult situation of single women in modern Japanese society. The famous Japanese female director Naomi Kawase adapted the novel into a film of the same name in 2020. It was nominated for various awards at the Cannes Film Festival, San Sebastian International Film Festival, and Japan Film Academy Awards that year.
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