"Noriben : The Recipe of Fortune" Japanese film screening at The Japan Foundation, 5A Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV > 6:30pm on 24th June & 2pm on 29th June 2013

Time : 
24th June : 6:30 pm
29th June : 2:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : The Japan Foundation, 5A Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV, New Delhi - 110024

Venue Info : www.jfindia.org.in | Map | Events | Nearest Metro Station - 'Moolchand(Violet Line)'

Event Description : 'Noriben : The Recipe of Fortune' Japanese Animation film screening. 
Komaki NAGAI, 31, was raised in the working-class Kyojima area of Tokyo. She has had enough of her goodfor-nothing younger husband, Noritomo, and takes her daughter, Noriko, aka ‘Nonchan,’ back to live with her mother at the Kyojima home that she was raised in. Komaki doesn’t want to become a burden to her mother, Fumiyo, so looks for a job. But there are few employment opportunities for an over-30 single mother with no qualifications and no experience. She accepts a part-time job for the time being, and re-encounters her former senior high school classmate, Tateo. Komaki is developing a passion for Tateo, who takes her to a small tavern called “Totoya.” There, she tastes the ‘mackerel in miso’ and is astonished. She is completely enraptured by the taste, and becomes determined to open the “ultimate cheap but tasty box lunch shop.” She enlists the assistance of “Totoya,” but then…
(c) 2009 ” NONCHAN NORIBEN” Film Association

Language : Japanese with English Subtitles

Theme of the month: “Family’s Portrait, Living in Downtown”

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