Summary
On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Skip it if
- You want dark or edgy material
Where to watch
Not streaming in United States. Where it is:
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 75GoodWatch 74
Letterboxd · 7 K ratings3.9/5
IMDb7.2
Running time
1 h 42 min
A typical length for dramas, −7 min on the typical 109
typical 109102Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 3 countries
Released
2006
June 11, 2006
20 years ago
Genres
DramaComedyLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Also spoken
FinnishMade in
Finland- Japan
and 3 moreDirecting · 3
- Naoko Ogigami Director, Screenplay
- Mark Lwoff Assistant Director
- Piia Nokelainen Second Assistant Director
Writing · 1
- Yôko Mure Novel
Production · 9
- Seiji Okuda Executive Producer
- Masayasu Ishihara Executive Producer
- Mitsuru Oshima Executive Producer
- Hanako Kasumizawa Producer
- Mayumi Amano Producer
- Kumi Kobata Producer
Camera · 3
- Tuomo Virtanen Director of Photography
- Tero Aaltonen Second Assistant Camera
- Raimo Paananen First Assistant Camera
Editing · 1
- Shinichi Fushima Editor
Sound · 2
- Tatsuo Kondo Original Music Composer
- Yosui Inoue Theme Song Performance
Art · 1
- Annika Björkman Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 2
- Marjut Samulin Makeup Artist
- Tomoko Miyazaki Makeup & Hair
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