Recently watched the Japanese movie "Bread of Happiness". The film is about a young couple who open a café and homestay in a scenic countryside. The wife is responsible for making coffee and the husband is responsible for making bread. Film and television is a fresh, light style. There are not many lines.
The café has regular customers, a man with glasses who waits every day for the bus to come over for a cup of coffee.
Once, a little girl came, and the little girl's mother left her and divorced her father. She was shrouded in a layer of troubled sorrow. She missed her mother's pumpkin soup. But the little girl's father is busy at work and cannot take good care of his daughter, the little girl can't even eat well when she comes back from school, and the father-daughter relationship is in a relatively cold state. The little girl came to the café for the first time, and the hostess happened to bring her a bowl of pumpkin soup, and the little girl did not eat it and ran away with tears in her eyes. The coffee shop owner and his wife noticed the little girl's strange appearance, so the two of them learned about the situation and invited the father and daughter to come over for breakfast, and the pumpkin soup and bread were still served. The little girl could not open the knot in her heart, crying that this was not the taste that her mother made, and refused to eat it. The little girl's father has always been very guilty of his daughter, he knows that his daughter has always blamed him for her mother's departure, and she bows her head guiltily and is also very sad. At this time, the glasses man played the accordion for them, the beautiful sound of the piano made the father and daughter lift up, looking at the smiling glasses man and the coffee shop owner couple, the father and daughter finally opened their hearts, shared bread, drank the pumpkin soup together, and went home hand in hand.
There is also a lovelorn woman who works as a salesman in Tokyo, because she was dumped here by her boyfriend to relax. The woman was depressed, and she had boasted in front of her colleagues that she had gone to Okinawa with her boyfriend, but she had to come here alone. Fortunately, the coffee shop had a regular customer, a young man who built the railway. Young people repeat boring work day after day, their hearts are like ashes, and they want to change. Meet a woman who has lost love, listen to her tell the unhappiness of life and love, and comfort her. The two gradually developed a relationship, and finally the young man decided to go to Tokyo with the woman to start a new life, and the sky gradually became clearer.
Finally, on a snowy winter night, an old couple who opened a bathhouse came. They came here 40 years ago, got back together here and got married. Now this grandmother is terminally ill and has little time. Grandpa came with his wife, just to die with her. The coffee shop owner and his wife saw the difference and tried to stop it, but they did not prepare a hot and painful meal and crispy bread. Grandpa thought that Grandma had only loved rice all her life, and he refused bread. But when the grandmother couldn't help but be attracted by the fragrant bread, picked up the bread and enjoyed eating it, the grandfather knew that the grandmother did not like to eat bread. The two shared the bread and ate it slowly, enjoying it, as if they had also dispelled the dark clouds in their hearts. Grandpa felt the grandmother's desire to survive, and finally the two returned to the bathhouse. Soon after the old lady died, the grandfather was still living optimistically.
The story is always interspersed with the story of the heroine, the boss lady. After the death of her parents, she was alone and in a very low mood. She likes to read the picture book "Mani and the Moon" since she was a child, and she also hopes to find The Mani in her life, that is, the right person in her life. Her husband brought her here, opened this homestay café, and has been silently taking care of her. The two are that kind of light, obviously can feel that the heroine does not feel that the husband is her Mani. It was not until the appearance of these guests, who participated in their life story, that the heroine gradually became clear, and she finally felt that the husband who silently guarded her and hurt her and loved her was the Marni in her life. The following spring, she told her husband that this year's guests had already begun to book, and he asked who it was. She pointed to her stomach, it turned out that she was pregnant, her husband jumped up happily, and the two ran together into the fields, running together to a new life.
The film is very plain, like a cup of tea, a small story like a piece of tea, slowly soaked in water, slowly emitting aroma.
What is happiness in life? Neighbors, friends and even strangers care for each other, encourage each other, and walk hand in hand on the journey of life, which may be happiness!