One Bowl of Kakesoba
一杯のかけそば
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...
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Cast
Tsunehiko Watase
as Proprietor of Hokkaitei
Pinko Izumi
as Mother
Shingo Tsurumi
as Elder brother
Kōen Okumura
Shingo Yanagisawa
Shino Ikenami
Kazumi Kawai
as Masayo
Wataru Shihôdô
as Hattori
Sayuri Kokusho
Midori Kanazawa
Takako Sasuga
as (voice)
Etsuko Ichihara
as Narration (voice)
Yoshie Ichige
as Proprietress of Hokkaitei
