A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox (1961)

8.0/10 89 min Comedy

Overview

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...

Cast

Hisaya Morishige

Kintaro

Junzaburō Ban

Magosaku

Chikage Awashima

Keiko

Frankie Sakai

Ichiro

Keiko Awaji

Kyū Sakamoto

Achako Hanabishi

Kingorō Yanagiya

Daisuke Katō

Yōko Mihara

Takeshi Sakamoto

Bin Amatsu

Tatsuo Matsumura

Hikaru Mayuzumi

Noriko Sengoku

Michino Yokoyama

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