Bento Monogatari (2010)
27m
Running Time
November 17, 2010Release Date
Plot.
A woman tries to put some new life into her failed marriage by delving into the world of Japanese pop-culture. Every morning, she prepares a cute Japanese lunchbox (Bento) for her husband, Frank, who works in the waste collection center. Frank is more interested in his beautiful, young, male colleague and secretly throws his lunchbox away before anyone sees it.
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Cast & Crew.
Bea Duchateau
Yvonne
Dirk Lavryssen
Frank
Bram van Outryve
Gunther
Dirk Lavrysen
Frank
Sae Nozawa
PEN - the Haiku Robot (voice)
Pernilla Dirkx
Legume Girl (voice)
Pieter Dirkx
Super Mega Disgusting Microbe Man / Director / Writer
Lore Van Houten
Girl in the hallway
Details.
Wiki.
Bento Monogatari (often translated as 'Lunchbox Story') is a 2010 short film by Pieter Dirkx. It was selected for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the Cinéfondation section. The film was the director's graduation project at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels film school.