Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune (2009)
Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.
Director: Akira Ogata
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Manami Konishi as Komaki Nagai |
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Yoshinori Okada as Noritomo Nagai |
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Sayaka Yamaguchi as Reika Tamagawa |
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Mitsuko Baisho as Fumiyo Hara |
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Jun Murakami as Takeo Kawaguchi |
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Ittoku Kishibe as Totani |
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Yoji Tanaka as |
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Hiroo Andô as |
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Moeko Ezawa as |
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Rio Sasaki as |
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Yuu Tokui as |
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Toshiyuki Kitami as |
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Satoru Matsuo as |
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Koichi Ueda as |
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Ryutaro Yamasaki as |
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Takao Kinoshita as |
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Misa Wada as |
| Directing | Akira Ogata | Director |
| Writing | Kiwa Irie | Novel |
| Production | Yumiko Takebe | Producer |