Lunch Box
3.9 / 10
65 minutes
2004-11-20
Japanese
JP
Actors :
Yumika Hayashi, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Lemon Hanazawa, Kiyomi Itō, Yohta Kawase, Yūji Tajiri, Takeshi Itō, Kazunori Sakurai, Hiroshi Sato
Description
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.