Noriben - Recipe For Fortune
- のんちゃんのり弁
Nonchan noriben - Japan 2009, DVD, 104 min, Japanese with English subtitles
- Director: Akira OGATA
- Scrpit: Akira OGATA, Takuji SUZUKI
- Production: "NONCHAN NORIBEN" FILM ASSOCIATION
- Director of Photography: Norimichi KASAMATSU
- Music: coba
- Distributor: Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln (The Japan Foundation)
- Actor: Manami KONISHI, Yoshinori OKADA, Jun MURAKAMI, Rio SASAKI, Ittoku KISHIBE
- Film Breakfast
- Sunday 9.6. 11:00 a.m. Mousonturm Studio 1
Recently separated from her layabout husband, Komaki takes her daughter Nonchan and moves back to her hometown to live with her mother. For a single mother in her 30s with no qualifications and no experience, finding a decent job is not easy. When she discovers that her "Noriben" bento is a big hit at her daughter's kindergarten she comes up with a brilliant idea.
DIRECTOR BIO
While working as an assistant director to Sogo ISHII, Akira OGATA (*1959) made his own independent film, CHINESE CABBAGE MAN (1980), which was selected for the PIA Film Festival. He made his big screen debut with BOY'S CHOIR, which was awarded the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival in 2000.
FILMOGRAPHY (selection)
2000 Boy's Choir (Dokuritsu shonen gasshodan); 2005 The Milkwoman (Itsuka dokusho suru hi / NC '07); 2006 Feast (Kyoen - Shigematsu Kiyoshi "Aisai nikki" yori); 2010 Elevator to the Gallows (Shikeidai no elevator)
Recently separated from her layabout husband, Komaki takes her daughter Nonchan and moves back to her hometown to live with her mother. For a single mother in her 30s with no qualifications and no experience, finding a decent job is not easy. When she discovers that her "Noriben" bento is a big hit at her daughter's kindergarten she comes up with a brilliant idea.
In cooperation with The Japan Foundation