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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Sweet Bean, it finds tenderness and regret in everyday rituals, using shared food, quiet pauses, and delicately observed intergenerational relationships rather than dramatic plot turns.
02
Why this pick
Its gentle pacing, luminous seasonal detail, and compassionate attention to people gradually making room for one another echo Sweet Bean’s restorative warmth.
03
Why this pick
A modest, beautifully patient drama about flawed adults and family ties, with the same humane humour and emotional power emerging from ordinary domestic moments.
04
Why this pick
For Sweet Bean’s soothing food-centred intimacy: a small café becomes a place where strangers quietly connect, rendered with unhurried rhythm and gentle comic grace.
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Why this pick
Naomi Kawase brings the same tactile naturalism and profound respect for ageing to a more meditative, nature-bound story of grief, care, and companionship.
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01 / THE STORY
The film centres around Sentaro, a middle-aged man who runs a small dorayaki shop in the outskirts of Tokyo. The shop is frequented by locals as well as secondary-school pupils. When he puts up a notice saying that he is looking for a co-worker, he is approached by Tokue, a lady in her mid-seventies, who states that she has always wanted to work in a dorayaki shop. Sentaro initially rejects her application, afraid that the work would prove too much for the old lady who, moreover, has somewhat deformed hands. He is swayed, however, when he tries Tokue's bean paste; its taste and texture are far superior to that of the factory-made bean paste Sentaro has been using. Sentaro asks Tokue to start making bean paste with him, revealing that up until now, he did not actually like his own product.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Sentarô
Wakana
Wakana's mother
Yohei
Tokue
