Released Date:
2006-09-29
Languages:
Japanese, Finnish
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (1029 Reviews)
Director:
Naoko OgigamiYèko Mure (novel)
Naoko Ogigami (screenplay)
Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her, and meets Masako, a formal and ethereal middle-aged woman whose luggage has gone missing. The three women work in the diner, interact, and serve customers. A somewhat brusque man teaches Sachie to make delicious coffee, then he returns under other circumstances. Three neighborhood women inspect the empty diner every day; will anything bring them inside? We learn why Sachie serves rice balls; but why Finland?
Released Date:
2007-09-22
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
106 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (769 Reviews)
Director:
Naoko OgigamiTaeko an stressed out career woman leaves her stressed out life in the city for an island vacation. The vacation does not become what expected, as everyone on the island are rather strange.
Released Date:
2012-05-12
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (719 Reviews)
Director:
Naoko OgigamiA single woman runs a rent-a-cat service to provide companions for lonely people.
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