Sweet Bean
2015 · Movie · 113 min · ★ 7.4 · 73% critics
A struggling dorayaki shop owner hires an elderly woman whose red bean paste transforms the business and draws in a shy student regular. As the three form an unlikely bond, rumors and prejudice threaten their fragile new sense of belonging, pushing them to face burdens they’ve carried for years.
Based on Sweet Bean Paste
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Streaming on Kino Film Collection.
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Details
- Original title
- あん
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2015-05-30
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Critic score
- 73/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (604 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a gentle, food-centered drama about unlikely friendship and social prejudice, with a reflective mood similar to True Mothers or Still the Water; Not for you if you need fast pacing.
Pros: tender human connections; mouth-watering food moments; thoughtful life lessons | Cons: slow, low-tension pacing; sentimental, didactic beats; ending feels stretched
Themes
- japan
- based on novel or book
- cooking
- restaurant
- sanatorium
- slice of life
- food
- chef
- street vendor
- woman director
- small business
- cooking together
- +1 more
Awards & recognition
- IFFR audience award · 2016 · nominated
Cast & crew
Kirin Kiki
as Tokue
Masatoshi Nagase
as Sentaro
Kyara Uchida
as Wakana
Miki Mizuno
as Wakana's Mother
Etsuko Ichihara
as Yoshiko
Miyoko Asada
as Shop Owner's Wife
Taiga Nakano
as Yohei
- WK
Wakato Kanematsu
as Wakato
Saki
as Middle School Girl
- MT
Miu Takeuchi
as Middle School Girl
Directed by Naomi Kawase