Nagatan to Ao to Ichika’s Recipe Book Blu-ray BOX

The setting is postwar Kyoto in 1951. Ichika, played by Mugi Kadowaki, is the daughter of the long-established restaurant Kuwanoki. After losing her husband, she works as a cook in a hotel kitchen. She has decided to make her life in Western cuisine, but meanwhile customers continue drifting away from her family's restaurant after the war, pushing it into financial crisis.

To secure support for the restaurant, a marriage is proposed with the Yamaguchi family, hotel owners in Osaka. Her prospective husband turns out to be nineteen-year-old university student Amane, played by Ryuto Sakuma. Like a sharp green chili pepper, ao to, he speaks bluntly, and the two are close to an explosive clash. Yet Ichika takes up the nagatan, or kitchen knife, left by her late husband and decides on a political marriage to rebuild Kuwanoki.

The main drama is joined by a special interview with Mugi Kadowaki and Ryuto Sakuma of HiHi Jets, Behind the Scene filming footage, a special conversation between the leads, the completion-premiere screening and promotional spots. An original booklet is included. Contents and specifications may change without notice.

The cast features Mugi Kadowaki, Ryuto Sakuma, Aoi Nakamura, Rinka Kumada, Shunya Shiraishi, Kanako Momota of Momoiro Clover Z, Konatsu Kato, Akiko Kikuchi, Takehiko Ono, Kisuke Iida, Yoshiko Tokoshima, Itsuji Itao and Keiko Toda.

The three region-free Blu-rays contain approximately 253 minutes of main drama with original Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround and Linear PCM 2.0 stereo, and no subtitles.