One Bowl of Kakesoba

Synopsis

Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets poke their heads into the restaurant and ask for a single bowl of kakesoba. Noticing that the trio is looking a little low in the heels, she puts in an extra scoop of noodles. The youngest boy declares that the soba is delicious. The next year, the same threesome appears again asking for one bowl of kakesoba. This time the old man dumps in two helpings. He is struck by how much the youngest looks like their own son who was hit by a truck three years previous. The following year, the three return and this time the mother tells her story...

Main Cast

Tsunehiko Watase

Proprietor of Hokkaitei

Age : N/A | Popularity : 22%

Pinko Izumi

Mother

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Shingo Tsurumi

Elder brother

Age : N/A | Popularity : 63%

Masaya Obi

Elder brother as a boy

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Hidetsugu Takiguchi

Younger brother as a boy

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Kōen Okumura

Age : N/A | Popularity : 24%

Leonard Kuma

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Shingo Yanagisawa

Age : N/A | Popularity : 55%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Tadahiko Nobe
	Executive Producer	Kaoru Tomihara Shinji Nakagawa Hikoji Ueda Matsuo Takahashi Yuzo Irie
Writing	Screenplay	Ai Nagai
	Original Story	Ryohei Kuri
Directing	Director	Katsumi Nishikawa
	Assistant Director	Kazuhiko Ishida
Crew	Sound Recordist	Eiji Kimura
Camera	Director of Photography	Kuratarō Takamura
Sound	Original Music Composer	Toshiyuki Watanabe
Editing	Editor	Akira Suzuki
Lighting	Lighting Technician	Mitsuo Onishi
Art	Art Direction	Akiyoshi Satani
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