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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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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1992-02-15
- video_camera_front Companies Sony Music Entertainment, Hokkaido Broadcasting Co., Kinema Tokyo, TFC, dentsu, Tokyo FM
- timer Runtime: 98 Mins
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- info IMDB ID tt0349626
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Tsunehiko Watase
Proprietor of Hokkaitei

Pinko Izumi
Mother

Shingo Tsurumi
Elder brother

Masaya Obi
Elder brother as a boy

Hidetsugu Takiguchi
Younger brother as a boy

Kōen Okumura

Leonard Kuma

Shingo Yanagisawa

Shino Ikenami

Kazumi Kawai
Masayo

Wataru Shihôdô
Hattori

Hiroshi Tamaoki

Sayuri Kokusho

Midori Kanazawa

Takako Sasuga
(voice)

Etsuko Ichihara
Narration (voice)

Yoshie Ichige
Proprietress of Hokkaitei
groups Crew

Hikoji Ueda
Executive Producer

Matsuo Takahashi
Executive Producer

Kaoru Tomihara
Executive Producer

Shinji Nakagawa
Executive Producer

Yuzo Irie
Executive Producer

Tadahiko Nobe
Producer

Ryohei Kuri
Original Story

Ai Nagai
Screenplay

Toshiyuki Watanabe
Original Music Composer

Katsumi Nishikawa
Director

Kuratarō Takamura
Director of Photography

Mitsuo Onishi
Lighting Technician

Akiyoshi Satani
Art Direction

Eiji Kimura
Sound Recordist

Akira Suzuki
Editor

Kazuhiko Ishida
Assistant Director
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