She married a boy 15 years younger to save her restaurant. Business or pleasure? Both, obviously.
Season 2 • Episode 6
LatestIn Kyoto, soon after the war, Ichika strives to save her family's long established ryoten restaurant from financial crisis. In order to do so, she marries Yamaguchi Amane, who is 15 years younger, in a marriage of convenience.
Production
Meticulous period detail in every kimono fold
Acting
Kadowaki's restrained power versus Sakuma's raw vulnerability
Direction
Matsumoto frames desire through cooking gestures
Creator
Soushi Matsumoto
Mugi Kadowaki
Kuwanoki Ichika
Ryūto Sakuma
Yamaguchi Amane
Keiko Toda
Marukawa Machiko
Rinka Kumada
Yamaguchi Suzune
Shunya Shiraishi
Yamaguchi Yukari
Kisuke Iida
Yamaguchi Shigeru
Yoshiko Tokoshima
Kuwanoki Aiko
Takehiko Ono
Fujiwara Chikauji
Aoi Nakamura
Tajima Akitsugu
Yuri Tsunematsu
Kawashima Shoko
Toranosuke Kobayashi
Sakae
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ryoten restaurants historically required male heirs; the series quietly interrogates why Ichika's competence wasn't enough without a husband.
Kadowaki trained with actual kaiseki chefs for three months; every knife technique you see is her, no hand doubles.
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