Kamome shokudô (2006)

Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her, and meets Masako, a formal and ethereal middle-aged woman whose luggage has gone missing. The three women work in the diner, interact, and serve customers. A somewhat brusque man teaches Sachie to make delicious coffee, then he returns under other circumstances. Three neighborhood women inspect the empty diner every day; will anything bring them inside? We learn why Sachie serves rice balls; but why Finland?

Country: Japan  

themoviedb.org: http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/25657

IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483022/

Director(s) / Writer(s):

Naoko Ogigami

Naoko Ogigami

Also Known As:

Kamome Diner