2015 Japanese literary drama film, directed by Naomi Kawase , adapted from the novel of the same name by Tetsuya Akikawa, Tree Hirin , Masahiro Nagase , starring Karo Uchida, about a dorayaki shop, Zeng Shi The story of Dejiang, an old man suffering from leprosy, who communicates with people around him.
Ms. Dejiang, an old man in her 70s, came to a small dorayaki shop in a corner of the city in a sunny season sakura . The manager is a middle-aged man, and he made dorayaki by hand. The middle school students were eating, Dejiang walked to the door, carefully and softly asked the store manager about the recruitment, she came to apply for the job, because the recruitment advertisement said there was no age limit, but the store manager still asked her age and learned that she was 76 years old , In the end, he politely declined, and gave her a dorayaki before leaving.
The store manager gave the defective products that were not in good shape and could not be sold to Ruaka, a middle school student who often came to visit. His family conditions were not very good. He lived with his mother. The canary in the middle is together, and the store manager is helping the young girl in his way.
When the door closed in the afternoon, Ms. Dejiang came to the front of the store again and handed the manager a piece of paper to introduce her name. Because the words she wrote with her hands twisted and crooked in her old age, the manager rejected her offer to be a temporary worker again. idea. Dejiang changed the subject and hinted that his dorayaki bean paste was not very tasty, saying that he had been making it for fifty years and a half centuries, and he left a pack of things for the store manager to taste, and left in a hurry. The manager opened the bag and found that it was and red bean stuffing . He threw it directly into the trash can, and then took it out and tasted it again. The taste was really much better than what he made himself.
After the rain, the sky is sunny and the breeze blows the cherry tree , Dejiang reappears, she looks at the swaying branches and swings her hands together, the manager who has been convinced by her bean paste walks out of the store and sincerely invites Dejiang to come in to work, Dejiang is overjoyed and grateful , I was a little surprised to say that all his beans were delivered, because the bean paste is the soul of Dorayaki, so we should treat it with emotion. She learned that the store will open at 11 am, and preparations should start before dawn. The store manager usually prepares for the production at 9 o'clock, and she doesn't quite understand why it takes so long.
The next day was not yet bright, the store manager went downstairs and found that Dejiang was already waiting for him. The two came to the store and looked at the soaked red beans . Dejiang leaned over to observe closely and screened out impurities and bad ones. Beans, steamed on low heat and rinsed with cold water, let the water slowly wash away the astringency of the beans, and then continue to cook for two hours until the fragrance comes out. The manager is a little impatient, but he still cooperates with all steps of Dejiang. In her eyes, the red beans are alive. She is entertaining these beans warmly, listening to the gurgling sound and muttering to herself. When rinsing for the second time, she leans close to the water basin and examines it carefully, telling the curious store manager that she is watching the red beans from the hardships of sowing to the The joy of harvesting goes to a lifetime as an ingredient.
Next, add sugar and water to cook again, but you can't turn it on immediately. You have to wait for the red beans to absorb enough water and the sugar to get used to it, and then heat it on a low heat. She instructed the store manager to stir gently and gradually until the adhesive is added at the end. The work of time has made the fragrant red bean paste, which looks mouth-watering. Try it with the cake crust. The manager who doesn't like sweets can't help but feel that it is the first time to eat such a delicious dorayaki, even if He was in a business by himself, and he had never eaten a whole dorayaki before. Dejiang asked him why he was engaged in a job he didn't like, but the manager did not answer.
After the fragrance spread on the first day, there were many people waiting in line outside the store on the second day. They came to buy delicious and upgraded Dorayaki, which made the manager and Dejiang very happy.
That night, the proprietress of the store, the owner of the store manager, came to the store manager and said that someone told her that Dejiang lived in a leper quarantine area. The disease was terrible and contagious. She asked the store manager to fire Dejiang immediately. She tried to say that her illness was cured, but the proprietress insisted, and even threatened the store manager with the past. It turned out that the store manager once owed a huge debt.
The store manager was caught in a dilemma. He drank to vent, and he told Dejiang to take a day off before he recovered the next day. Dejiang came to the store to prepare the next day's bean paste, opened the curtains and saw that there were already customers waiting outside, so the old man The wife worked alone, collecting money for production and sales, and barely managed it. After finally seeing Wakana who came over, Dejiang sighed that it was nice to be young, and the two chatted about her canary.
After a day, the store manager came to the store and saw that Dejiang was already busy inside. Only then did she know that she had been busy all day yesterday and was preparing today's bean paste. He was moved and invited Dejiang to entertain the guests. Dejiang took out two handmade cushions for the two of them to sit on while resting. The store manager told Dejiang that he owed a lot of money to the boss here, and that he was working part-time to pay off the debt. Dejiang didn't ask much, saying that each of us has our own story. .
Wakana came to the store again and carefully asked what happened to Dejiang's hand, Dejiang told her that she had a disease when she was her age, and it has continued to this day. Ruo Cai went back and read the information and learned that Dejiang was suffering from leprosy. The patient's urgent wish was that they also wanted to live in a bright and beautiful world.
After that, although the dorayaki was still delicious, none of them could be sold, and no one came to the door for a day. Both of them knew that someone had told the story of leprosy. Dejiang bowed to the store manager and said goodbye. It didn't show up either.
Soon the store manager received a letter from Dejiang, saying that when she was cooking red beans, she would listen carefully to the words of the red beans, imagine everything they experienced, and listen to them tell the stories of the journey, because she believes that everything in the world can be say. But sometimes she is defeated by the malice of this world. She used to be, and now she has high hopes for the store manager, believing that he will be able to make dorayaki that can express her thoughts, so she must go on strong.
One afternoon, Wakana came over with a canary cage. She ran away from home in the morning, because the apartment she rented could not allow this disturbing pet. She asked the store manager or Dejiang to help. The store manager said that she also lived in the apartment. I can't keep it. Ruo Cai confessed that she had checked the information and told her mother, so it was undoubtedly her mother who spread the news. The store manager felt that the rumors were terrible, and blamed himself for not protecting her well. The two agreed to visit her where Dejiang lived together.
Came to the sanatorium by car, and saw Dejiang who looked older again. Dejiang was very happy and told the two of her stories. She has been living here since she was a teenager, and lived alone without her family. She was not allowed to become pregnant. She is grateful for the special care of the store manager when giving birth. She is still gentle with others despite suffering in the world. The store manager is in a hurry and burst into tears. Dejiang persuades him to smile when he eats.
After he went back, the store manager wrote a letter to Dejiang, telling Dejiang his deep-rooted past. When he was working in a bar three years ago, he persuaded him to beat a person seriously. During his sentence, his mother often came to visit. Having left him, this has also become a knot in his heart.
The business was bleak. The proprietress wanted to change the shop into a teppanyaki shop, allowing the manager to continue selling dorayaki. Wakana took him to the sanatorium to visit Dejiang again, and when she learned that she had died of pneumonia, Dejiang gave his set of cutlery to the store manager, and recorded a farewell to the two of them.
She apologized to Wakana and said that she released the canary because it told herself that she wanted to be free, and it was not good to be trapped in a cage like herself all year round. It was when she saw the melancholy eyes of the store manager that she went to work and wanted to change him because it reminded her of her unborn child. The two of them burst into tears, and then went to see the cherry tree planted for Dejiang. We were born to see and listen to the world with our own eyes. Even if we don't become great people, we still have the meaning of living. .
Later, the manager left the store and set up a stall in the park to sell his Dorayaki. He finally came out and lived a serious life with a smile on his face.
