''Bento Monogatari'' (often translated as 'Lunchbox Story') is a 2010 short film by Pieter Dirkx. It was selected for the

2011 Cannes Film Festival The 64th Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 May 2011. American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition and French filmmaker Michel Gondry headed the jury for the short film competition. South Ko ...

in the

Cinéfondation La ''Cinéfondation'' is a foundation under the aegis of the Cannes Film Festival, created to inspire and support the next generation of international filmmakers. It was created in 1998 by Gilles Jacob. Since then it has developed complementary ...

section. The film was the director's graduation project at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels film school.

Plot

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 A is the Japanese cuisine, Japanese iteration of a single-portion take-out or home-packed meal, often for lunch. Outside Japan, it is common in other East and Southeast Asian culinary styles, especially within Chinese cuisine, Chinese, Korean c ...

) 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.

Cast

* Bea Duchateau as Yvonne * Dirk Lavrysen as Frank * Bram Van Outryve as Gunther * Sae Nozawa as PEN

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* 2010 films 2010s Dutch-language films 2010 comedy films {{Belgium-film-stub 2010 short films Belgian comedy films

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