★★★☆☆ "Everything in the world has a story to tell," explains a character in Japanese director Naomi Kawase's new film Sweet Bean, which finally arrives in UK cinemas over year after its berth in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) is the manager of a small bakery which specialises in a traditional Japanese pastry known as 'dorayaki'. The spring blossom drifts and yet Sentaro is not a happy man. He mechanically goes about his work to pay off an old debt and a lingering melancholy pervades his days along with a drink problem. He chats with a young school girl who has her own problems, namely with an inattentive mother.