Synopsis

Set in post-war Kyoto around the 1950s, “Nagatan to Aoto” depicts the life of Kuwanoki Ichika (Kadowakii Mugi), the daughter of a long-established ryōtei restaurant, who was left with only a kitchen knife as a keepsake after her husband did not return from war.

 

Wanting to be independent, she decides to work in the kitchen of a hotel that focused on Western cuisine. Now at 34 years old, Ichika remarries a young man fifteen years younger than her and takes on the challenge to rebuild her family’s restaurant together with her new husband.

 

This is a gourmet love story that focuses on a couple with an age difference as they develop a bond while working towards saving her family’s long-established ryōtei restaurant. Adapted from the josei manga series “Nagatan to Aoto: Ichika no Ryourijou” (ながたんと青と -いちかの料理帖-) by Isoya Yuki (磯谷友紀).