SUKIYAKI
STORY
The four occupants of Cell 204, being careful not to be detected by their jailers, bet their osechi New Year’s dinners on who can concoct the most mouth-watering tale of ‘the best food I ever had’. The winner gets everyone else's New Year’s dinner as well as his own.
Since dinner is the most eagerly anticipated part of the day in a prison, and New Year’s dinner is the most eagerly anticipated meal of the year, the stakes are high and the competition intense. One talks of his childhood and his mother’s home-cooked food; another of eating together with his beloved son, another of the food his girlfriend made for him. The newest prisoner in the cell, however, was abandoned by his parents as a child and has no such warm memories.
Listening to his cell-mates, however, he does remember the short time he spent with his mother, and a woman who truly did love him and wanted to make him happy. And he remembers the meal she cooked for him...
Since dinner is the most eagerly anticipated part of the day in a prison, and New Year’s dinner is the most eagerly anticipated meal of the year, the stakes are high and the competition intense. One talks of his childhood and his mother’s home-cooked food; another of eating together with his beloved son, another of the food his girlfriend made for him. The newest prisoner in the cell, however, was abandoned by his parents as a child and has no such warm memories.
Listening to his cell-mates, however, he does remember the short time he spent with his mother, and a woman who truly did love him and wanted to make him happy. And he remembers the meal she cooked for him...
Director: Tetsu MAEDA
Casts: Tasuku NAGAOKA, Masanobu KATSUMURA, Akaji MARO, Fumino KIMURA
Comedy/2011/Color/108 min
Japanese title: 極道めし