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Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
Why this pick
Like Bread of Happiness, it finds calm emotional restoration in seasonal cooking, rural landscapes, and the patient rhythms of a self-made life.
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MOVIE2012 1h 54m JPN
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Little Forest: Winter/Spring
Why this pick
This companion piece sustains the same gentle attentiveness to food and changing weather, using small domestic rituals as quietly healing drama.
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Our Little Sister
Why this pick
Its unhurried seasonal imagery, nourishing meals, and compassionate observation of people gradually building a home echo Bread of Happiness’s warmth.
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Sweet Bean
Why this pick
A humble food shop becomes a space for unlikely companionship in this tender, sensory drama with a similarly reflective pace and humane outlook.
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Rent-a-Cat
Why this pick
Its whimsical, lightly melancholy tale of a woman bringing comfort to strangers shares the film’s offbeat kindness and tranquil everyday texture.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Rie and Nao own a bakery-cum-restaurant named Mani on the shores of Lake Toya, Hokkaido. Nao is the baker who bakes the bakery's bread, while Rie is the chef who prepares the food in the restaurant. Graced with beautiful scenery throughout the four seasons, this shop serves a variety of customers, some of whom are experiencing personal problems. However, after they exit from the shop, they feel only happiness in their mind.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tomoyo Harada
Rie
Yo Oizumi
水縞くん
Kanna Mori
カオリ
Yuta Hiraoka
Tokio Yamashita
Yuuki Yagi
未久
Ken Mitsuishi
未久のパパ
Reika Kirishima
未久のママ
Katsuo Nakamura
阪本史生