Soup (Umarekawari No Monogatari)

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Movie: Soup
Romaji: Supu Umarekawari No Monogatari
Japanese: スープ　生まれ変わりの物語
Director: Yuki Otsuka
Writer: Yuki Otsuka
Producer: Masahiro Hutoshiro, Hiroyuki Kitamaki, Kazuhisa Yanagida
Cinematographer: Jitsu Toyoda
Release Date: July 7, 2012
Runtime: 117 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Food / Father & Daughter / Afterlife
Distributor: Tokyo Theatres
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

Kenichi Shibuya (Katsuhisa Namase) is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase (Manami Konishi) are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife.

There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.

Cast



Katsuhisa Namase	Manami Konishi	Yuiko Kariya	Shuhei Nomura	Alice Hirose
Kenichi Shibuya	Yumi Ayase	Mika Shibuya	Naoyuki Mikami	Hitomi Misaki



Ai Hashimoto	Suzuka Ohgo	Ayumi Ito	Arata Furuta	Hiroki Matsukata
Chiaki Nishimura	Ayumu Yano	Mika Shibuya	Ichi Kondo	Tsutomu Ishida

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Cecilie May 14 2012 1:50 pm Whoaaah~! Finally a trailer! xD Wow looks like Kariya Yuiko will get a lot of screen time - YES! And Hashimoto Ai is int this movie too - dream cast ♥ The story seems unique and the acting looks promising - really can't wait for this to come out >__< It will be Yuiko's first major movie role since appearing as a smaller role in Kokuhaku :O I'm so excited XDDD

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