CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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MOVIE2017 2h 6m JPN

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Why this pick

Like The Last Recipe, it finds profound feeling in Japanese craftsmanship and food-adjacent ritual, balancing gentle humor with a patient, elegiac story about memory, family, and what people leave behind.

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Sweet Bean

Why this pick

Its quiet attention to making dorayaki and to overlooked lives closely matches The Last Recipe’s tender faith in food as a vessel for history, care, and human connection.

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Why this pick

A warm, beautifully observed family drama whose seasonal meals, restrained emotions, and gentle accumulation of shared memories echo the intimate heart of The Last Recipe.

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The Chef of South Polar

Why this pick

This understated ensemble comedy turns cooking into comfort and companionship, offering the same lovingly detailed culinary sensibility and soft emotional warmth in a very different setting.

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Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

Why this pick

Its unhurried, tactile portrait of rural cooking shares The Last Recipe’s reverence for ingredients, inherited knowledge, and the emotional meanings contained in everyday dishes.

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01 / THE STORY

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Kazunari Ninomiya

Kazunari Ninomiya

佐々木充

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Hidetoshi Nishijima

山形直太朗

Go Ayano

Go Ayano

柳沢健

Aoi Miyazaki

Aoi Miyazaki

山形千鶴

Daigo Nishihata

Daigo Nishihata

鎌田正太郎

Yutaka Takenouchi

Yutaka Takenouchi

三宅太蔵

Yoshi Oida

Yoshi Oida

楊晴明

Wakato Kanematsu

Wakato Kanematsu

楊晴明