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Lunch Box

  • November 2004
  • 1hr

    5mins

  • Romance
  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Shinji Imaoka,

    Starring

    Yumika Hayashi,

    Mutsuo Yoshioka,

    Lemon Hanazawa,

    Kiyomi Itō

    ...

    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.