Food and the Maiden (2011)

Food and the Maiden 2011 / 飯と乙女 2011 / Meshi to Otome ,

Wada Saori is a cook at a dining bar named ‟Coo‟. Saori loves cooking. There is a patron at the restaurant named Kujo who has never touched her cooking. Saori gives Kujo a bag of sandwiches to eat at home, but she later learns he gave it to a Buddhist monk on the street. Saori doesn't know that Kujo only eats the food he cooks himself. Tabata Mie is bulimic and she lives with her boyfriend Kohinata Takeshi who eats all day. One day, Mie learns that she is pregnant. She asks Takeshi if he wants to have the baby or have it killed. Takeshi promises he will feed the baby. That day he disappears. Mie tells her friends she ate him. Middle-aged man Konaka Hisao runs a failing business. He's afraid whether he can keep feeding his wife Sakie, who has a voracious appetite, and their teenage daughter Yumi. Hisao hasn't eaten for days. One night, he loses control and empties Yumi's lunch box for the next day.