The Last Recipe
Original title: The Last Recipe: Kirin no shita no kioku / The Last Recipe: Memory of Giraffe's Tongue
2017 · 2 h 6 min
Yojiro TakitaCast
Kazunari Ninomiya 
Hidetoshi Nishijima 
Aoi Miyazaki 
Gô Ayano Daigo Nishihata 
Yutaka Takenouchi
Plot
A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.
Sinekatalog’s take
A Japanese food drama about a chef searching for a lost recipe, drawing on memory and war. Beautifully shot and gentle. A good dish for fans of culinary storytelling.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (980 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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