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Sweet Bean
Description
The film centres around Sentaro, a middle-aged manager whose business takes off when he hires an eccentric 76-year-old woman who specializes in making dorayaki pancakes.
The film centres around Sentaro, a middle-aged manager whose business takes off when he hires an eccentric 76-year-old woman who specializes in making dorayaki pancakes.
Actors:
Miu Takeuchi,
Kirin Kiki,
Taiga,
Kyara Uchida,
Wakato Kanematsu,
Saki Takahashi,
Miyoko Asada,
Miki Mizuno,
Etsuko Ichihara,
Yurie Murata,
Masatoshi Nagase
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Miu Takeuchi
28 March 1985
Kirin Kiki
15 January 1943, Tokyo, Japan
Taiga
Kyara Uchida
Wakato Kanematsu
Saki Takahashi
Miyoko Asada
15 February 1956, Tokyo, Japan
Miki Mizuno
28 June 1974, Mie, Japan
Etsuko Ichihara
24 January 1936, Chiba, Japan
Yurie Murata
Masatoshi Nagase
15 July 1966, Miyazaki, Japan
Genre:
Drama
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March 18, 2016
A delicate little fable that creeps up on you. It seems slight at first, but it's held together by a performance from the veteran actress Kirin Kiki
April 08, 2016
Its sentimentality is tempered by the elegant restraint of the fine lead performances.
December 13, 2016
Sweet Bean senses how even the tiniest change in the basic ingredients of one's life can yield considerable rewards.
April 07, 2016
Ultimately Kawase is more interested in charting emotional and sensory landscapes than in thinking through any narrative thread, yet there's something to be said for the movie's sincerity and simple beauty.
November 15, 2016
Echoes of classic Japanese cinema resound all over Sweet Bean, but its tugs at the heartstrings feel calculated in a way that Ozu's and Naruse's never did.
March 18, 2016
The movie, beautifully shot and acted, earns its ultimate sense of hope by confronting real heartbreak head-on, and with compassion.
August 09, 2016
Sweet Bean's gentle, quiet drama shares DNA with the work of Kawase's compatriot, Hirokazu Koreeda. Sweet by name, sweet by nature.
April 07, 2016
Kawase handles the material delicately and skillfully, and Kirin - a one-time ingenue actress whose first important film was in one of the early "Tora-san" movies - hits all the right notes.
August 08, 2016
A subtle treat, Sweet Bean is an unusual and interesting gentle pleasure.
January 03, 2017
Sweet Bean is a film that does its conventions right but gives nothing impactful as a result.
April 07, 2016
Ms. Kawase's sweet, slow film -- very slow, I'm obliged to say -- becomes a meditation on solitary lives lived at the margins of society; on old age, and on the urgency of telling our stories, which may sometimes include recipes.

