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A TALE OF SAMURAI COOKING - A TRUE LOVE STORY

By Yuzo ASAHARA

Drama - Completed 2013

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 121 mn
- Director(s)
- Yuzo ASAHARA
- Writer(s)
- Michio KASHIWADA, Yukiko YAMAMURO
- Cast
- Aya UETO, Kengo KORA
- Producer(s)
- Yoshitaka ISHIZUKA, Hideaki MIYOSHI
- Synopsis
- Haru has an excellent sense of taste and surpassing skill in the kitchen, but she has been divorced from her first husband after only a year of marriage because of her impetuous character. One day, Haru is proposed by Dennai Funaki, samurai chef from Kaga, to marry his succeeding son. The Funaki family who has served the Lord of Kaga not with the “sword” but with the “kitchen-knife” is well known as “Kitchen Samurai” for generations. However, now, her new husband Yasunobu wields a kitchen-knife with no skill at all. In order to save the family name Funaki and its position as kitchen samurai, Haru decides to teach him the art of cuisine... The story is based on a real-life family in Kaga that has survived countless upheavals with its cuisine.