![]() ![]() This is a tipping point for Mahito’s despondence and he engages in a dramatic act of self-harm to ensure he does not have to return to school. However, the other schoolboys bully Mahito and beat him severely. His busy father assures Mahito the local school children will be impressed when he arrives in an automobile (a rare luxury in that era). Mahito is respectful of his pregnant stepmother but is emotionally distant from her as he navigates his ongoing grief and the strange old mansion in which he must now live. ![]() Mahito’s father, a factory owner, later marries his dead wife’s sister, Natsuko, and moves Mahito to Natsuko’s family’s country estate. He sees the flames from a distance and races towards the building but, due to the distance and his young age, he is unable to save her. A school-aged boy Mahito loses his mother when the hospital where she works catches fire in wartime Tokyo.
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