Video has emerged showing a mother violently kicking her small daughter in the head inside Tokyo's Shibuya train station. Courtesy: YouTube/twinclouds1

AT first the sound of the woman shouting draws the attention of the stranger behind the camera.

Then it’s the cries of the little girl.

But what happens next, leaves the man angry and shocked.

Just as the woman grabs the child and starts to drag her away, the little girl resists.

Then suddenly the woman, believed to be the girl’s mum, lifts up her leg and kicks the girl so hard in the head she falls to the ground.

Immediately, the man shooting the video yells something at the woman.

She turns to look but does not respond and quickly grabs the child to leave.

The incident is said to have occurred in March at Japan’s Shibuya Train Station but was posted to YouTube this week.

See the disturbing footage above