Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune

Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune

108 mins | Drama, Comedy | Sept. 26, 2009

Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.

Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune

108 mins | Drama, Comedy | Sept. 26, 2009

Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.
Producers King Record Co., Chubu-nippon Broadcasting Company, Kinoshita Komuten
Original title のんちゃん のり弁
Directors Akira Ogata
Writers Kiwa Irie

Cast

Manami Konishi

as Komaki Nagai

Yoshinori Okada

as Noritomo Nagai

Sayaka Yamaguchi

as Reika Tamagawa

Mitsuko Baisho

as Fumiyo Hara

Jun Murakami

as Takeo Kawaguchi

Ittoku Kishibe

as Totani