Sweet Bean (2016)

Manager of a small Japanese dorayaki shop needs help, but isn’t impressed by the elderly woman with crippled hands who applies. But once she brings him a sample of her homemade bean paste, he’s convinced and hires her to make the fillings. 

There’s a decent blend of melancholy and kindness running through this story, but it may tilt a little bit too far toward the melancholic. I liked it, but also wanted more. And I also now want to make dorayaki (sweet bean paste sandwiched with small pancakes).

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