The story begins with an unexpected encounter on a rainy day…
Chisa Sakaki, a 26-year-old, has closed her heart due to a past event and spends her days in an indifferent manner. She has promised herself that she will never fall in love, but something changes in her that starts the clock ticking again… (Source: Japanese Film Database)
Directed by Tetsu Maeda (Do Unto Others) based on the manga by Rettou Tajima (published from August 2018 to July 2020) and screenplay adaptation by Satomi Oshima, this movie stars Suzu Hirose, Riku Onishi and Kengo Kora. It was released in Japan on June 9, 2023.
Chisa Sakaki, a 26-year-old, has closed her heart due to a past event and spends her days in an indifferent manner. She has promised herself that she will never fall in love, but something changes in her that starts the clock ticking again… (Source: Japanese Film Database)
Directed by Tetsu Maeda (Do Unto Others) based on the manga by Rettou Tajima (published from August 2018 to July 2020) and screenplay adaptation by Satomi Oshima, this movie stars Suzu Hirose, Riku Onishi and Kengo Kora. It was released in Japan on June 9, 2023.
- 6/23/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
A gleaming and delightful anime with a large appetite for tenderness and laughter, director Ayumu Watanabe’s mother-daughter saga “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” boundlessly adores its titular character even when it lingers a tad too long on her happy-go-lucky naiveté or ample love of food.
We get introduced to Nikuko (Shinobu Ôtake), a charming thirtysomething living with her young daughter, Kikuko (Cocomi), as she contentedly works at a local grill house in a small port town in Northern Japan. Heavyset, carefree and irrepressibly joyful in a manner that both puzzles and disarms everyone around her, she is known as “the cheery plump lady who wound up living here” to townsfolk. There is a lot of truth to that, as the film’s stunning opening montage recaps, guided largely by Kikuko’s voiceover, like the rest of the movie.
Being a punch-drunk romantic a little too trusting of scheming men who mercilessly take advantage of her,...
We get introduced to Nikuko (Shinobu Ôtake), a charming thirtysomething living with her young daughter, Kikuko (Cocomi), as she contentedly works at a local grill house in a small port town in Northern Japan. Heavyset, carefree and irrepressibly joyful in a manner that both puzzles and disarms everyone around her, she is known as “the cheery plump lady who wound up living here” to townsfolk. There is a lot of truth to that, as the film’s stunning opening montage recaps, guided largely by Kikuko’s voiceover, like the rest of the movie.
Being a punch-drunk romantic a little too trusting of scheming men who mercilessly take advantage of her,...
- 6/3/2022
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
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