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As a family-run confectionery shop in Kagoshima struggles to stay in business with increasing competition from local supermarkets, the family's three daughters experience various troubles in their private lives.
Acting
Yoh Yoshida's bitter middle-child energy is devastatingly specific.
Writing
Dialogue so restrained you hear what nobody says.
Production
The confectionery shop feels lived-in, cluttered, dying.

Director
Kiyoshi Sasabe
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