Bento Monogatari (2010)
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.
- Date of release
- 2010-11-17
- Runtime
- 27m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Pieter Dirkx
Casting
- Bea Duchateau — Yvonne
- Dirk Lavryssen — Frank
- Bram van Outryve — Gunther
- Sae Nozawa — PEN - the Haiku Robot (voice)
- Pernilla Dirkx — Legume Girl (voice)
- Pieter Dirkx — Super Mega Disgusting Microbe Man
- Lore Van Houten — Girl in the hallway
- Jade Van Houten — Girl in the hallway
Interesting facts
Bento Monogatari 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.
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