Movies: The To O Nippo Press

A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid....

Keiko Tsuruoka’s film is at once traditional and contemporary: it gently mixes present-day gender and sexuality politics with the old-fashioned Japanese domestic drama. Traditional lacquerwork kitchenware is the Aoki family’s legacy, handed down to p...