Sweet Bean
Trailer: Sweet Bean
Year: 2015
Genre: Drama
Studio: Comme des Cinémas, Nagoya Broadcasting Network, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, Aeon Entertainment, Kumie, POPLAR Publishing, Hakuhodo, Elephant House, The Asahi Shimbun, ZDF/Arte, MAM, MAM FILM
Director: Naomi Kawase
Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno, Etsuko Ichihara, Miyoko Asada
Crew: Naomi Kawase (Screenplay), Naomi Kawase (Director), Durian Sukegawa (Novel), Kyōko Heya (Art Direction), Shigeki Akiyama (Director of Photography), Tina Baz (Editor)
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