The Zen Diary

Nov 11, 2022

1h 52m

★ 6.9

To eat is to live. To eat is to love, that's why food tastes the best when eaten together.

Overview

Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His routine is happily disturbed when Machiko, his editor and love interest, occasionally visits. Tsutomu seems content with his daily life. On the other hand, he still hasn't let go of his wife's ashes, although she died 13 years ago.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Office Shirous

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Cast

Tsutomu

Kenji Sawada

Machiko

Takako Matsu

Mika

Naomi Nishida

Ryu

Toshinori Omi

Fumiko

Fumi Dan

Carpenter

Shōhei Hino

Chie

Tomoko Naraoka

Photographer

Koihachi Takigawa

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