If you liked this movie, you should also see: Requiem for a Dream (2000)C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)Ilektra (1962)The Travelling Players (1975)Underground (1995)
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her customers for her attention, and she is continually in debt. The life of a bar hostess is examined as well as the way in which the system traps and sometimes kills those in it.