Food and the Maiden

Young girl Saori, a cook at a diner, loves cooking. There is a regular customer Kujo, a guy who has never touched the plate of her cooking. Saori decides to give him a bag of sandwiches for him to eat at home, but later she finds that he gave it to a Buddhist monk on a street. She does not know that Kujo only eats what he cooked himself. A tragicomedy of 4 couples suffering about eating.

2010

1h 15min

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Top Billed Cast

佐久間麻由
Saori
田中理恵
Rie
Takae Okamura
Satoshi Kamimura
Kujo

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