A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox (1961)
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...
Director: Seiji Hisamatsu
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Hisaya Morishige as Kintaro |
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Junzaburō Ban as Magosaku |
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Chikage Awashima as Keiko |
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Frankie Sakai as Ichiro |
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Keiko Awaji as |
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Kyū Sakamoto as |
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Achako Hanabishi as |
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Kingorō Yanagiya as |
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Daisuke Katō as |
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Yōko Mihara as |
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Tomoko Watanabe as |
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Takeshi Sakamoto as |
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Fumie Noguchi as |
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Bin Amatsu as |
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Tatsuo Matsumura as |
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Hikaru Mayuzumi as |
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Noriko Sengoku as |
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Michino Yokoyama as |
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Hiroshi Tachihara as |
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Akira Tatsuoka as |
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Isao Tsuzuki as |
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朝香優子 as |
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Shiho Matsunami as |
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Shunsuke Omi as |
| Sound | Kenjiro Hirose | Music |
| Directing | Seiji Hisamatsu | Director |
| Crew | Tokuzo Kuroda | Cinematography |
| Production | Fumio Kanahara | Producer |
| Production | Ichirō Satō | Producer |
| Writing | Kihan Nagase | Writer |