A family shop crumbles while three sisters' lives fall apart—sweetness has never been this bitter.
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
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kagoshima's 'karukan' spongecake tradition is real—family shops like this are vanishing across Japan.
Director Sasabe cast actual sisters for background roles to create authentic sibling energy in crowd scenes.
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