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One of the most acclaimed figures in modern Japanese cinema, Naomi Kawase followed up her remarkable 2014 film Still the Water with Sweet Bean [An], a small-town drama of culinary redemption, which opened the prestigious Un Certain Regard strain of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Struggling street food vendor Sentaro finds himself confronted with Tokue (Kirin Kiki), an odd but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. When he reluctantly accepts, it’s not long before Tokue proves to have an extraordinary gift when it comes to making “an” – the sweet red bean paste filling used in his dorayakis – which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food.With Sweet Bean, Kawase again focuses on people at the periphery of Japanese society and investigates their place in the flow of life itself. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film for the first time in the UK.
Original Release
05/30/2015
US Release
07/19/2016
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Kirin Kiki | Tokue |
Masatoshi Nagase | Sentarô / Sentaro |
Kyara Uchida | Wakana |
Miki Mizuno | Wakana's Mother |
Miu Takeuchi | Middle School Girl |
Saki Takahashi | |
Yurie Murata | Middle School Girl |
Taiga Nakano | Yôhei / Yohei |
Wakato Kanematsu | Wakato |
Miyoko Asada | Shop Owner's Wife |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Kirin Kiki | Tokue |
Masatoshi Nagase | Sentarô / Sentaro |
Kyara Uchida | Wakana |
Miki Mizuno | Wakana's Mother |
Miu Takeuchi | Middle School Girl |
Saki Takahashi | |
Yurie Murata | Middle School Girl |
Taiga Nakano | Yôhei / Yohei |
Wakato Kanematsu | Wakato |
Miyoko Asada | Shop Owner's Wife |
Etsuko Ichihara | Yoshiko |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kenji Asai | Producer |
Kôichirô Fukushima | Producer |
Martin Hampel | Producer |
Akira Ikeda | Producer |
Thanassis Karathanos | Producer |
Naomi Kawase | Producer |
Yasuhiro Kihara | Producer |
Yoshito Ohyama | Producer |
Hiroshi Okumura | Producer |
Hiroaki Saitô | Producer |
Masa Sawada | Producer |
Holger Stern | Producer |
Masashiro Watanabe | Producer |
Hiroshi Yamamoto | Producer |
Laurent Harjani | Producer |
Kenichi Miyata | Producer |