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Lunchbox

4.5 average rating
★★★★★
4.5
Japanese / 65 MIN. / 2004

The Genres

The Synopsis

The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.

The Cast

Yumika HayashiMutsuo YoshiokaLemon HanazawaKiyomi ItōYohta KawaseYūji TajiriTakeshi ItōKazunori SakuraiHiroshi Sato

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