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Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayakis – pastries filled with sweet red bean paste. When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts.
Please note that this film is in Japanese, with Dutch subtitles. The introduction and discussion by Jos van Eijk will be in Dutch too.
Tokue proves to have magic in her hands when it comes to making ‘an’. Thanks to her secret recipe, the little business soon flourishes. And with time, Sentaro and Tokue will open their hearts to reveal old wounds.
Naomi Kawase, Germany, France, Japan, 2015, 117 min. Japanese spoken, Dutch subtitles.
With Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miyoko Asada.