Japanese Film Title.... Supa no Onna
Language...............Japanese
Subtitle...............English & Japanese (idx.sub files)
Duration..............2 hour 6mins
Container.............MPEG-4 Visual XviD (avi file)
Resolution............528 x 288 (16/9)
BitRate...............588 kbps
Framerate.............23.976 fps
Audio Format..........AC-3, 2channels, 224 Kbps, 48KHz
Size..................760 MB
Genre..................Drama, Comedy, Food, Classic
Director...............Juzo Itami of "Tampopo", "A Taxing Woman", etc.
Release Date...........June 15, 1996 (Japan)
Story Plot:
It is a comedy directed by Juzo Itami, better known as the director of the ‘noodle Western’classic Tampopo, and as with most of his movies stars his wife, Nobuko Miyamoto. Miyamoto plays Hanako, a 40-something widowed woman who wanders into a run down small suupaa, a local supermarket, which happens to be run by her childhood friend Goro, a widower played by Masahiko Tsugawa. The suupaa is called Sho-jiki Ya, (“Honest Goro”). Sho-jiki ya is teetering in the edge of failure because a brash competitor called Yasuuri Daimaoh (“Bargains Galore”). Hanako, who keeps insisting she’s “just a housewife with a housewife’s wisdom”, is a supermarket expert with a sharp eye and strong opinions about how a supermarket should be run. In short order she’s hired by Goro, first as the head cashier, then as the assistant manager of Sho-jiki Ya. Together with Goro, she must fight the corrupt figures behind Yasuuri Daimaoh to prevent Sho-jikiya from going under.
