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Sweet Bean

Summary: Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his suc...

Release Date: May 30, 2015

Genre: Drama

Director: Naomi Kawase

Writers: Naomi Kawase

, Durian Sukegawa

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Aeon Entertainment, Asahi Shimbun, Comme des Cinémas, Kumie, Mam, Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Nagoya TV), Poplar Publishing, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH, ZDF/Arte

Distributor: Kino Lorber, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Japan, France, Germany

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 234,000,000

Domestic: $ 124,800

International: $ 4,603,550

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