Attack on the Bakery
Director Yamakawa Naoto
Year 1982
Length 16 minutes
Language Japanese (English subtitles)
Based on Murakami Haruki’s short story ‘Pan’ya shÅ«geki’ (1981) [Not translated, ‘The bakery attack’].
Two hungry young men decide to rob a bakery run by a Wagner-enthusiast communist. Before they can pull of their attack, they encounter a young woman standing in the bakery, indecisively choosing between a Japanese pastry and French croissants.