Kamome Shokudo.

I was at the Pacific Cinematheque with Jay and Lehli for a movie called Kamome Shokudo, part of the Kibatsu Cinema film fest. A Japanese woman opens a small Japanese diner in Helsinki and characters with very distinct personalities drift in and out. I was particularly fond of the local Finnish young man obsessed with all things Japanese as was expressed by the t-shirts he wore from day to day ranging from Japanese cartoon characters to geisha.

There was magic in this film, a quality rarely found in modern Japanese cinema that I’ve seen in the past, and I quite liked it. I loved it actually, and my two friends also agreed.

I’ve got to find out more about this Gatchaman anime.