Flavor of Happiness

Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by himself, gives Takako the brush-off. One day, however, Wang collapses due to overwork, and is left with partial paralysis. Hearing the rumor of the restaurant’s closure, Takako resigns from the department store and becomes an apprentice to Wang.

• Release date
• October 11, 2008
• Runtime
• 124 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Mitsuhiro Mihara

Cast

Miki Nakatani Yamashita Takako Tatsuya Fuji Wang Qing Kuo Kei Tanaka Takahashi Akira Kaoru Yachigusa Yuriko Nagata Masahiro Komoto Kazuyoshi Ueda Shirō Shimomoto Shiro Shima Houka Kinoshita Yoshio Nomura Masato Yamada Ichi Ishida