Source: Shochiku, GAGA Corporation Official Site: bushikon.jp (Japan) Shochiku has released a trailer and new images for A TALE OF SAMURAI COOKING - A TRUE LOVE STORY (?????, Bushi no Kondate), the upcoming historical drama starring Aya Ueto (AZUMI and THERMAE ROMAE) and Kengo Kora (FISH STORY, A STORY OF YONOSUKE). The story is based on a real-life family in Kaga that has survived countless upheavals with its cuisine. Haru (Ueto) has an excellent sense of taste and surpassing skill in the kitchen, but she has been divorced from her first husband after only a year of marriage because of her impetuous character. One day, Haru is proposed by Dennai Funaki (Toshiyuki Nishida, SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, OUTRAGE BEYOND), samurai chef from Kaga, to marry his succeeding son. The Funaki family who has served the Lord of Kaga not with the “sword” but with the “kitchen-knife” is well known as “Kitchen Samurai” for generations. However, now, her new husband Yasunobu (Kora) wields a kitchen-knife with no skill at all. In order to save the family name Funaki and its position as kitchen samurai, Haru decides to teach him the art of cuisine... A TALE OF SAMURAI COOKING - A TRUE LOVE STORY opens in Japanese cinemas on December 14, 2013.
Image courtesy of Shochiku Co., Ltd. © 2013 “A Tale of Samurai Cooking” Film Partners
Image courtesy of Shochiku Co., Ltd. © 2013 “A Tale of Samurai Cooking” Film Partners
Dennai Funaki (Toshiyuki Nishida) asks Haru (Aya Ueto) to marry his son. Photo courtesy of Shochiku Co., Ltd. © 2013 “A Tale of Samurai Cooking” Film Partners
Yasunobu Funaki (Kengo Kora) must learn the art of fine cuisine. Photo courtesy of Shochiku Co., Ltd. © 2013 “A Tale of Samurai Cooking” Film Partners
Photo courtesy of Shochiku Co., Ltd. © 2013 “A Tale of Samurai Cooking” Film Partners
Samurai chef! Photo courtesy of Shochiku Co., Ltd. © 2013 “A Tale of Samurai Cooking” Film Partners
Yasunobu takes cooking lessons from his new wife. Photo courtesy of Shochiku Co., Ltd. © 2013 “A Tale of Samurai Cooking” Film PartnersFor more information on A TALE OF SAMURAI COOKING - A TRUE LOVE STORY, please see the previous coverage here on SciFi Japan: