Film

Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune

2009 · 1h 48m · Comedy · Drama

IMDb

6.6

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.

Manami Konishi

Komaki Nagai

Yoshinori Okada

Noritomo Nagai

Sayaka Yamaguchi

Reika Tamagawa

Mitsuko Baisho

Fumiyo Hara

Jun Murakami

Takeo Kawaguchi

Ittoku Kishibe

Totani

Yoji Tanaka

Hiroo Andô

Moeko Ezawa

Rio Sasaki

Yuu Tokui

Toshiyuki Kitami

Satoru Matsuo

Koichi Ueda

Ryutaro Yamasaki

Takao Kinoshita

• Akira OgataDirector
• Kiwa IrieNovel
• Yumiko TakebeProducer

Release date

September 26, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 48m

Genres

Comedy, Drama