Sweet Bean (An, 2015) Review – A Healing Story About Life's Scars
The Dorayaki, filled with sweet red bean paste 🎥 Film Overview Detail Information Title An (あん / Sweet Bean) Director Naomi Kawase Genre Drama Release 2015 (Japan) Runtime 113 minutes Main Cast Kiki Kirin (Tokue), Nagase Masatoshi (Sentaro), Kyara Uchida (Wakana) Based on Novel by Durian Sukegawa Language Japanese Awards Un Certain Regard nominee (Cannes 2015) 📖 Plot Summary Sentaro (Nagase Masatoshi) runs a small dorayaki shop in Tokyo, living a quiet, detached life weighed down by his past as an ex-convict. His days are mechanical—mixing batter, filling pancakes with store-bought sweet bean paste, serving customers without joy. Everything changes when Tokue (Kiki Kirin), an elderly woman with gnarled hands, arrives asking for a job. Despite his...