Soup
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Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.
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Cast
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Katsuhisa Namase
Kenichi Shibuya
Known for
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes
Legal High
Manami Konishi
Yumi Ayase
Known for
Steamboy
Retribution
Yuiko Kariya
Mika Shibuya
Known for
Confessions
Shuhei Nomura
Naoyuki Mikami
Known for
The Hours of My Life
Human Vapor
Alice Hirose
Hitomi Misaki
Known for
Bubble
Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration
Ai Hashimoto
Chiaki Nishimura
Known for
Confessions
Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
Suzuka Ohgo
Ayumu Yano
Known for
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Kirishima Thing
Ayumi Ito
Mika Shibuya
Known for
Tokyo Vice
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Arata Furuta
Ichi Kondo
Known for
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
The Full-Time Wife Escapist
Hiroki Matsukata
Tsutomu Ishida
Known for
13 Assassins
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Masato Irie
Also in
Unfair
Stay Gold
Keiko Horiuchi
Known for
I Give My First Love to You
A Story of Yonosuke
Yuki Otsuka Director
First release July 7, 2012 · Produced in Japan · Original title スープ〜生まれ変わりの物語〜
Production
Tokyo Theatres Company
Production
Japan
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Original title
スープ〜生まれ変わりの物語〜
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · July 7, 2012
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No release date listed for United States.
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