Dad’s Lunch Box (2017) is a Japanese family-drama/comedy inspired by a true story. Over the course of her three years in high school, a girl named Midori eats a homemade bento lunch that her father packs for her every single school day. On her very last day, she opens the lunchbox to discover a photograph of the very first bento her father made when she started high school, along with a heartfelt handwritten message from him. The film explores themes of parental love, rituals of care, and how sm