Happy Bread (2012)
Tired of the metropolis's busy and mechanized boring life, the fantasistic Riki (Tomoyo Harada) and her gentle and considerate husband flee Tokyo and settle on a hill adjacent to a lake in Tsukiura, Hokkaido. Mr. and Mrs. Mizumi run a bakery and coffee shop called Máni, where they divide their work to make delicious food and feast on people who stop by. That year, the sad Kaori Saito (Mori カンナ) and the young Yamashita (Yuta Hiraoka), who has always been trapped in Hokkaido, meet, and pure feelings quietly arise; the silent little girl Unjiu (Yagi Yuki) and her father (Hikari Ken) find comfort in Máni with the thought of their mother; the terminally ill old woman and husband visit here and savor the last moments of their lives.
Cold and summer, love gathers and clutches, the river of life flows slowly with the aroma of coffee and bread...
Sumisa Nomi An (2015)
The story takes place in a specialty store called "Spring of The Gong", where Chitaro (Masatoshi Nagase) is the manager of the store, once, he had a very dark past, and now, he buries his unforgettable memories deeply in his heart, rest assured, and only works as a vendor selling gongs.
One day, an old man named Tokue (Kiki Shirin) comes to the shop and claims that he has come to apply for a job as a clerk, however, there is no need for a clerk in the little Gong Spring, and Chitaro plans to reject Deoke from the beginning. However, Deoke took out the red bean paste he had made, and after tasting it, Chitaro was shocked by the deliciousness of the filling, and in this way, Tokue became a member of the shop. Over time, some unfavorable rumors about Dejiang spread in the town, and even affected the operation of the shop.
Late Night Dining Room Movie Late Night Dining Room (2014)
Tokyo's neon twinkles at night, and in some humble corner of the city, a warm late-night cafeteria quietly opens. The charming Tamako Kawashima (Takaoka Hayaki) has a decadent face, and her patron died not long ago, but she has not left a penny inheritance. When Tang Tang is helpless, Xiao Chu (Shisheng Shōmoto), an office worker who does not look amazing, walks into Yuzi's vision, and their relationship quickly closes. Country girl Michiru Kuriyama (Played by Michiru Dobe) comes to Tokyo alone, and when she is desperate, she eats a bully meal at her boss (Kaoru Kobayashi), and afterwards takes the initiative to ask for a part-time job to pay back, so the girl finds a temporary shelter. The 3/11 earthquake brought together Fukushima victim Kenzo Oishi (Michitaka Tsutsui) and volunteer Akemi Sugita (Yakiko Kikuchi), a volunteer from Tokyo. Oishi pursued the latter fanatically, even following him to Tokyo.
The little stories of ordinary people, alternately staged in the late-night canteen...
Nanji Cook Antarctic Chef (2009)
The film is based on a collection of essays by Jun Nishimura, a former chef on the Japan Antarctic Observation Team, based on his own experiences, "Interesting Antarctic Cooks". Jun Nishimura (Masato Sakai), a seafarer chef, is sent to the icy Antarctic Dome Fuji Base to cook for seven expedition members, and his wife (Naomi Nishida) has to raise her 8-year-old daughter and newborn son alone. In the icy and snowy cold antarctica, it is the seven members of the expedition team— glaciologist Tatsushi Kawamura (Kengo Takara), meteorologist Masahiko Hirabayashi (Masahiro Kohama), correspondent Ryo Nishida (Daisuke Kuroda), doctor Masashi Fukuda (Koshi Toyohara), meteorologist and captain Hiroshi Kaneda (Yasuhiro Furuki), mechanic MikoShiki (Koji Koji Kodate), and iceologist Hideyuki Motoyama (Katsuhisa Iwase) – the greatest pleasures of boring life. Jun Nishimura tries his best to cook a variety of delicious dishes, and around eating, eight lonely men also perform countless interesting things about life.
The film won the Best Actor Award at the Yokohama Film Festival in Japan (Masato Sakai).
Small Forest Summer & Autumn Little Forest Summer/Autumn (2014)
The ordinary girl Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) grew up in komori, a village in the tohoku region of Japan. Far from the hustle and bustle of the city, it is surrounded by green mountains and rivers, just like a quiet and pleasant paradise. The villagers work at sunrise and rest at sunset, relying on a pair of industrious hands to manage a small but comfortable life, without dispute with the world. Ichiko once went to Tokyo to explore, but she could not adapt to the fast pace of the city, and eventually returned to the old house where her mother was long gone. When she was a child, her mother Fukuko used various ingredients from the mountains and rivers to make randomly named delicacies, and the solid-eyed Ichiko lamented that she was deceived, but also left good memories in the depths of her taste buds. As if following in her mother's footsteps, she incorporates her love of her hometown into the cooking of food. Surrounded by friends Yuta (Takada Miura) and Yoshiko (Matsuoka), enjoy a carefree life...
The film is based on a manga by Daisuke Igarashi.
Small Forest Winter Spring Little Forest Winter Spring (2015)
Unable to blend in with the hustle and bustle of a big city, the ordinary girl Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) chooses to return to her hometown where she grew up, the village of Komori in the Tohoku region of Japan. There is not much fashion and civilization here, and the locals live a traditional life of sunrise and sunset, they rely on the sky to eat, rely on their hands to run their lives. Although life is not rich, the heart is full of fullness and joy. Influenced by her mother (Kirishima かれん), Ichiko seems to have a particularly keen interest in making all kinds of delicious and inexpensive dishes by hand. My mother has been missing for a long time, and the memories and reproductions of cooking have become a unique way of communication between mother and daughter. Not to mention the various ingredients taken from nature, how can they waste the best Shaoguang? Accompanied by friends Noriko (Matsuoka Momo) and Yuta (Takada Miura), Ichiko quietly walks through the spring, summer, autumn and winter...
The film is based on the original work of manga artist Daisuke Igarashi.
Hanano Zubora Rice (2012)
Newly married, her husband Goro is transferred to work in a foreign country, and only his wife Komazawa Hana (Kana Kurako) is left in the Tokyo family. As a full-time housewife, Xiaohua has no consciousness of doing housework, she eats and is lazy all day long, spending time by sleeping, reading magazines, and listening to music, although she is delicious by nature, she is super afraid of trouble. Of course, lazy people will always have lazy people's fantastic ideas, through the hands of small flowers, all kinds of colors, fragrances and very simple lazy people's food has appeared, obesity, stress, loneliness, social problems have all retreated, food is currently other people and things are irrelevant. Lazy and cute little flower spent the same but funny every day...
The film is based on the eponymous work of Masayuki Kusumi (original) and Etsuko Mizusawa (manga).
Ryori Senjo (2008)
Fast food doctrine has swept the globe, and Japan is not immune. However, there are still "Ichisori-an" who are willing to cook delicious dishes for guests over a delicate and slow fire. Yuo Ezaki (Uchihiro Takashi Hiroki) works at a very commercial restaurant and can't bear it, so he goes to Ichisho-an to ask for a job in order to pursue his dream of perfect cooking. Unexpectedly, the lady owner of Ichisho-an is no longer the one he saw as a child, but her daughter Hanta Sen (Yu Aoi Yû Aoi) to take over. Ah Xian loves to indulge in the contents of the cup, which makes the guy a big headache. Yuo Ezaki, who was already in charge of the kitchen, had to start over after coming to Ichisho-an, and he couldn't even touch the knife, and he couldn't help but be greatly frustrated. I also thought about giving up, and when I wanted to leave, I couldn't let go of Ah Xian and Ichisen-an. For today's world, Ichisho-an is independently pursuing his own goal of independence, but the shadow of reality has gradually approached, is this way of doing business really feasible? Ah Xian has reached marriageable age, and she agrees to go on a blind date, which really surprises Yuo Ezaki, and unconsciously he is already fascinated by her.
Samurai Food Menu (2013)
In the long-dead Edo period, there was a special group of samurai in the samurai class, they were the kitchen knife samurai (Bao Ding Samurai) who were specially prepared for the general or the lord of the domain, and although they could not kill the enemy, the kitchen knife in their hands was indeed no less important than the katana. Kaga Domain's premier chef, Funaki Denouchi (Toshiyuki Nishida), is old, and his eldest son, who was originally the heir, suddenly dies of illness, while the second son, Anshin (Kengo Takara), loves to dance swords and sword, but his cooking skills are too flattering. At a grand banquet in the domain, a maid next to lady Azhen (Yui Natsukawa) of the lord of the domain was admired by TheRaine with her excellent sense of taste and talent for cooking. After this, Kenuchi pleaded repeatedly, and finally asked the maid named Koharu (Ueto Cai) to agree to marry Anshin. After Koharu passed through the door, through a cooking duel, her husband was willing to learn cooking skills with her.
Under the guidance of his wife, An Xin gradually became a qualified Bao Ding waiter who was able to stand alone. But at this moment, a bloody storm struck Kaga Domain...
Kaito Shokudo Kamome Shokudo (2006)
Finland is the closest European country to Japan and only takes ten hours by plane. Yukie (Satomi Kobayashi) runs a Japanese restaurant called "Seagull Cafeteria" on her own in the picturesque capital of Helsinki, and she hopes to keep her guests' hearts with simple but warm traditional hand-rolls, but unfortunately it backfires, and the restaurant is often empty. Later, Midori (Kata kirito) and Masako (Sasuke Sako), for different reasons, came there to help.
Coupled with the young handsome customers of Japanese culture fans, Finnish old ladies who originally just stopped to point and watch, but later attracted by the scent of cinnamon rolls, middle-aged men who had worked there and could not forget the original coffee machine, seriously asked how to tie a scarecrow to curse the husband of a middle-aged woman. These interesting and real people, around the seagull canteen, formed a faint friendship.