Lunchbox

Lunchbox — Plot

The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accidentally knocks Yoshioka off his bicycle, and they have a sexual encounter soon after. Aiko begins preparing lunchboxes and giving them to Yoshioka at his workplace as a way of expressing affection, which she cannot do verbally.

• Release date
• November 20, 2004
• Runtime
• 65 min
• Genres
• Romance, Drama
• Director
• Shinji Imaoka

Lunchbox — Cast

Yumika Hayashi Fukui Aiko Mutsuo Yoshioka Kawada Yoshio Lemon Hanazawa Kato Ikumi Kiyomi Itō Chiba Keiko Yohta Kawase Arima Yūji Tajiri Takeshi Itō Ishimoto

K

Kazunori Sakurai Matsuo