Nonchan noriben

NORIBEN - The Recipe of Fortune -

のんちゃんのり弁

(c)2009 NONCHAN NORIBEN FILM ASSOCIATION

Release Date: September, 26th, 2009

Running Time: 107 min

Genre: Comedy , Drama , Children/Family , Feature

Color: Color

Screening Format: 35mm

Screen Size: American Vista (1:1.85)

Sound Processing: Stereo

[ Directed by ]

OGATA Akira

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

KONISHI Manami ── NAGAI Komaki
OKADA Yoshinori ── NAGAI Noritomo
MURAKAMI Jun ── KAWAGUCHI Takeo

[ Staff ]

IRIE Kiwa ── Original Story
SUZUKI Takuji ── Screenplay
OGATA Akira ── Screenplay
KASAMATSU Norimichi ── Cinematography
coba ── Music

[ Production Company ]

"NONCHAN NORIBEN" FILM ASSOCIATION

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

Kino Films

[ Story ]

A heartfelt drama adapted from the comic of the same title by Irie Kiwa and directed by Ogata Akira (The Milkwoman) that portrays the powerful struggle of a 31 year-old former housewife to open her own "bento" (boxed lunch) shop after returning to her childhood home with her young daughter. Food stylist Iijima Nami, whose creations have also appeared in films such as Kamome Diner and Glasses, has again prepared an array of simple and yet visually pleasing home cuisine for this film, including the "noriben" of the film's title (a "bento" featuring toasted "nori" (seaweed) dipped in soy sauce over rice). Komaki (Konishi Manami), who was raised in the working-class downtown district of Tokyo, has had enough of the failures of her novelist husband Noritomo (Okada Yoshinori), and decides to take her daughter Noriko (Sasaki Rio) to the home of her mother Fumiyo (Baisyo Mitsuko). Aiming for a completely new start, she sets out full of hope to find work—but finds nothing other than numerous proverbial doors being slammed in her face. After the "noriben" that she packed for Noriko's lunch becomes a huge hit at kindergarten, she decides to open her own "bento" shop offering good inexpensive food—she forcibly apprentices herself to Toya (Kishibe Ittoku), the proprietor of the renowned restaurant Totoya.