One Day in January

One Day in January — Plot

Every year on the fourth of January, Shobei's soba restaurant serves "Sanada Soba"; soba noodles topped with grated spicy daikon radish. Even regulars refrain from coming to the restaurant because of the extra spicy soba. But on year, a stranger comes in and finishes the bowl, announcing that it tastes familiar. The man begins to visit every year on the 4th of January to eat Sanada Soba. Shobei develops a warm feeling towards the peculiar customer he interacts with once a year.

• Release date
• November 17, 2012
• Runtime
• 78 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Akira Inoue

One Day in January — Cast

Ken Matsudaira Akira Emoto Yoshie Ichige Shozo Uesugi Ryota Nakanishi Sei Hiraizumi Toru Masuoka Baijaku Nakamura