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Sweet Bean (Japanese: あん, Hepburn: An)[1][2] is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Naomi Kawase. It is the second film, after I Wish, to star real-life grandmother and granddaughter Kirin Kiki and Kyara Uchida. [3]
In Japanese director Naomi Kawase's exquisite film based on a novel by Durian Sukegawa, Sentari (Masatoshi Nagase) runs a shop where makes and sells dorayaki pancakes filled with sweet bean paste. He is a sad, middle-aged man burdened by past mistakes and poor choices.
Jun 10, 2016 · Sweet Bean is a deeply moving depiction of true friendship and a lesson on how to appreciate life through the world around us — including our food. The story centers around Sentaro ( Masatoshi Nagase ), a manager of sorts at a local food stall that serves sweet treats called dorayaki , which are made of sweet bean paste sandwiched between two ...
Aug 4, 2016 · Meanwhile Wakana, a schoolgirl from a broken family, finds a home from home within the new Gemeinschaft that develops around the older woman’s artisanal recipe for the pancake’s an sweet-bean filling, honed over 50 years of domestic cooking.
Mar 18, 2016 · 4 min read. Director Naomi Kawase is a Cannes Film Festival favorite whose work rarely reaches American shores. Since 1997, four of her films have competed for the Palme d’Or, and she has won the Golden Camera and the Jury Prize. Her latest film, “Sweet Bean,” which competed in last year’s Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, is getting ...
Apr 8, 2016 · Through her story this quiet, deeply felt film sheds a damning light on Japan’s official callousness, in earlier eras, toward certain segments of the population.
Mar 28, 2018 · There’s a gentle message about tolerance wrapped inside Sweet Bean (An), a touching Japanese movie revolving around a small pancake café in suburban Tokyo. Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase), the café’s sad middle-aged manager reluctantly hires eager 76-year-old woman Tokue (Kirin Kiki) to be his assistant.
