Single Mother to the Bitter Romantic

Single Mothers

7.2

A story about a woman who runs away from her violent husband and leaves home with their son. While overcoming difficulties that single mothers face in society, she gradually stands on her own feet with a help of senior…

A Single Mother Encounters the Love of a Lifetime

Yamamine Eiko, a struggling bar cleaner supporting her sick mother and daughter, spends a night with Aoki Yoichi, the chairman of the Manyo Group. When her pregnancy is revealed and she is threatened by her violent…

Go! Single Mother

6.4

The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan

This documentary depicts the theme of "hidden poverty" that has occurred in-spite of Japan's rapid economic growth in such a short period of time immediately following World War II. The film covers the suffering and…

A Single Mom

3 Nin no Shingurumaza - Sutekina Jinsei Gyakuten Monogatari

7.2

A special based on real-life stories. Three single mothers that have created little miracles for themselves and their family. Three parts in one special: "Tokyo University and Green Curry", "For you" and "The Notebook…

Kyukyu Kyumei-shi Makita Saori: Kinkyu Shutsudo! Gou no Naka no Taju Dai Gekitotsu Jiko

Mother

7.4

Akiko is a single mother and her son is Shuhei. Akiko casually has sex with other men, including Ryo. Akiko never works and spends time in a pachinko parlor. She uses Shuhei to ask for money from her relatives to the…

The Good Bad Mother

8.9

Young Soon is a single mother and pig farmer who raised her son Kang Ho alone. Despite her love for him, her strict parenting caused Kang Ho to view her as a bad mother. As an adult, Kang Ho became a cold-hearted prosecutor…

Rionne McAvoy

Rionne McAvoy is a documentary filmmaker originally from the Gold Coast in Australia. Now residing in Tokyo, Japan, for over 17 years, Rionne is fully bilingual in English and Japanese. Rionne grew up in South East Queensland, Australia, and at the age of 19 went to Japan for an 8-week karate training…

Hasna Cabral

Hasna Cabral is a Filipino actress. She is a single mother with two young children having special needs. After joining several auditions before, she was finally accepted as one of the housemates of the ABS-CBN’s reality show Pinoy Big Brother – Otso (PBB-8). However, she was evicted on the 29th…

Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons is the bassist of rock band KISS. He moved to America with his single mother, who was a survivor of the Holocaust, at the age of 8. He later started a rock band and named himself Gene Simmons. Gene married his wife, Shannon Tweed on October 1, 2011. They had their son, Nick, on January…

Lee Young Ae

Lee Young Ae is a South Korean actress. She is best known to worldwide audiences for her lead role in the hugely successful Korean historical drama "Jewel in the Palace" and her critically acclaimed role as the revenge seeking single mother in the crime thriller film "Sympathy For Lady Vengeance". Lee…

Oh Min Ae

Oh Min Ae is a South Korean actress born in Seoul, South Korea. She was born to an unwed single mother. She had to give up high school and support herself by doing odd jobs, such as newspaper seller, delivery work, bar waitress, and teaching aerobics. When she was 27, she visited a travel agency to…

Gang Mun

Gang Mun was born Oh Jin Hui in Seoul, and when she was 9 years old, she was the fourth out of 5 siblings and raised by a single mother. She graduated from Muhak Girls' Middle School and Chuncheon Girls' High School. She lived in Chuncheon until she dropped out of the Chuncheon Agricultural University…

Im Sung Geun

Im Sung Geun is a South Korean chef. He had a difficult childhood as he was raised by a single mother and was the youngest sibling. So, during middle school, he ran away from the countryside and worked in a professional kitchen, washing dishes and preparing food. He returned home after 6 months, graduated…

Hashimoto Tenka

Hashimoto Tenka is a Japanese model, youtuber, and talent. Born to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father in Beijing, Hashimoto was then raised in Ashikaga, Japan. She entered the entertainment business when she was in the first grade of elementary school. In October 2023, she announced she would be…

Oh Yeon Soo

Oh Yeon Soo is a South Korean actress. Yeon Soo made her debut in 1989 among a batch of actors who passed an open audition by broadcaster MBC, and she soon became popular for her innocent image. But since her marriage to fellow actor Son Ji Chang, Yeon Soo has had a career renaissance doing more mature…

Hyun Jyu Ni

Hyun Jyu Ni, previously known under the stage names Juni or Ju An, is a South Korean singer and actress. Jyu Ni debuted as the frontman of the four-member girl rock band "BellaMafia", which released the album Overstep in 2008. TV director Lee Jae Gyu spotted her in the musical Bandits and cast her as…