Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune (2009)

4.7/10 108 min Comedy Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Manami Konishi

Komaki Nagai

Yoshinori Okada

Noritomo Nagai

Sayaka Yamaguchi

Reika Tamagawa

Mitsuko Baisho

Fumiyo Hara

Jun Murakami

Takeo Kawaguchi

Ittoku Kishibe

Totani

Yoji Tanaka

Moeko Ezawa

Rio Sasaki

Yuu Tokui

Toshiyuki Kitami

Satoru Matsuo

Koichi Ueda

Ryutaro Yamasaki

Misa Wada

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