Directed by: Naomi Kawase
Released: 2015
Run time: 113 minutes
Certificate: PG
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A meditation on solitary lives lived at the margins of society
Struggling baker Sentaro finds himself confronted with Tokue (Kirin Kiki), an eccentric but sympathetic elderly lady looking for work. When he reluctantly accepts, it's not long before Tokue proves to have an extraordinary gift when it comes to making "an" - the sweet red bean paste filling used in his dorayakis - which starts a relationship that is about much more than just street food.
With Sweet Bean, acclaimed director Naomi Kawase again focuses on people at the periphery of Japanese society.
This small-town drama of culinary redemption opened the prestigious Un Certain Regard strain of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
