One Bowl of Kakesoba

One Bowl of Kakesoba (1992)

Drama

Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets poke their heads into the restaurant and ask for a single bowl of kakesoba. Noticing that the trio is looking a little low in the heels, she puts in an extra scoop of noodles. The youngest boy declares that the soba is delicious. The next year, the same threesome appears again asking for one bowl of kakesoba. This time the old man dumps in two helpings. He is struck by how much the youngest looks like their own son who was hit by a truck three years previous. The following year, the three return and this time the mother tells her story...

Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
Writer: Ai Nagai

Casts

	Tsunehiko Watase as Proprietor of Hokkaitei
	Pinko Izumi as Mother
	Shingo Tsurumi as Elder brother
	Masaya Obi as Elder brother as a boy
	Hidetsugu Takiguchi as Younger brother as a boy
	Kōen Okumura as
	Leonard Kuma as
	Shingo Yanagisawa as
	Shino Ikenami as
	Kazumi Kawai as Masayo
	Wataru Shihôdô as Hattori
	Hiroshi Tamaoki as
	Sayuri Kokusho as
	Midori Kanazawa as
	Takako Sasuga as (voice)
	Etsuko Ichihara as Narration (voice)
	Yoshie Ichige as Proprietress of Hokkaitei

Crew