Sweet Bean (DVD) (US Version)

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Known for acclaimed abstruse works like Still the Water & The Mourning Forest, festival darling Kawase Naomi takes a gentler turn in An, the opening film of the 2015 Cannes Film Festivals Un Certain Regard section. Based on a novel by Durian Sukegawa, Kawases most accessible work to date brings together three lonely souls through their shared affinity for "e;an, "e; sweet red bean paste. Sentaro (Nagase Masatoshi) runs a small shop selling dorayaki, a sweet pancake filled with red bean paste. Two very different people answer his help wanted ad for an assistant: schoolgirl Wakana (Uchida Kyara, I Wish), a shop regular, & septuagenarian Tokue (Kiki Kirin) whom Sentaro rejects because of her frail-looking hands. However, he changes his mind once he tastes the delicious bean paste that Tokue prepared. Business booms until its revealed that Tokue is a leprosarium resident.