A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox 1961

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...

  • Released: 1961-12-24
  • Runtime: 89 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Stars: Hisaya Morishige, Junzaburō Ban, Chikage Awashima, Frankie Sakai, Keiko Awaji, Kyū Sakamoto, Achako Hanabishi, Kingorō Yanagiya, Daisuke Katō, Yōko Mihara, Tomoko Watanabe, Takeshi Sakamoto, Fumie Noguchi, Bin Amatsu, Tatsuo Matsumura, Hikaru Mayuzumi, Noriko Sengoku, Michino Yokoyama, Hiroshi Tachihara, Akira Tatsuoka  Show all >
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  • Director: Seiji Hisamatsu