DAD'S LUNCH BOX

PAPA NO OBENTO WA SEKAIICHI

By Masakazu FUKATSU

PONY CANYON INC - as SALES

Family - Completed 2017

The true story of the father and daughter, a moving story originally Twitted on the internet that brought tears to 350,000 people.
This is a every day story of an ordinary family who is bonded stronger by the extraordinary bento- box

Festivals
& Awards

San Sebastian FF 2017
Culinary Zinema
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Family, Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 75 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Masakazu FUKATSU
    • Synopsis
    • A daughter posted a Tweet about her bento box lunch made by her father, which brought 350 thousands of people to tears on Twitter.
      This is a heartwarming touching true story of the father and daughter who lived an ordinary life.
      The father kept on making bento for his daughter through three years of high school, and she ate it for lunch everyday.
      In the last bento in her high school days, she found a picture of “the very first bento that her father had made for her” with a handwritten message from him.
      The father and the daughter, who were connected by bento lunch. The Tweet was retweeted more than 80 thousand times and got 260 thousand “likes.” This touching true story is now made into a film.
      Toshimi Watanabe got his first starring role in this film. Rena Takeda played the daughter role.