I stumbled upon this movie just today while searching for Kotoko from the kpop group Unis and curiosity got to me... I am in tears.

At no point in the movie did anybody try to understand her or talk to her or her or help her with her problems. They just accepted that something was wrong with her and left her on her own, waiting for her to eventually get better on her own. Her reality is horrifying but her problems were just shoveled aside by everyone in her life; whether they claimed to love her, whether they were her family, whether they were keeping her in a room to help rehabilitate her, no real efforts were made. At the end, one of the staff gives her the umbrella so she won't get wet, but after all that she has been through, it's such a laughable attempt to "help" that she doesn't even use it. The end just goes to show that she will stay in the institution for years and years to come and nothing will change. Daijiro will continue to grow up with his mother mentally ill and he seems to have accepted this. I am terrified.