Mother Ive Pretty Much Forgotten Your Face

Pig heads intestines megaphones all these and more have been thrown into crowds of loyal fans following the influential punk band THE STALIN or any of number of Michiro Endos other bands since 1980 Taking a step in front of the camera however Endo offers a very different kind of encounter in this inspiring selfportrait Mother Ive Pretty Much Forgotten Your Face follows the artist a native of Nihonmatsu Fukushima on the 2011 nationwide solo tour celebrating his 60th birthday which was interrupted by the Great East Japan Earthquake Traveling performing and talking with fellow musicians and activists Endo reflects on the past and future of Fukushima the legacy of Hiroshima his upbringing and his feelings about his mother communicated in the song from which the documentary is named