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BOOK CLUB MOVIE NIGHT RECOMMENDATIONSAs Before the Coffee Gets Cold has been adapted in novel form, on stage, and on screen, we anticipate your bookclub might be craving film recommendations of similar emotional resonance, or with storylines echoing the book.Based on these notes in our novel, we recommend If you were interested in the family inn explored in Kumi & Hirai’s tale Okko’s InnAfter losing her parents in a car accident, Okko starts living in the countryside with hergrandmother, who runs a traditional Japanese inn. While she prepares to be the nextowner of the inn, Okko can somehow see friendly ghosts.“ a sweetly rendered takeaway that helps galvanize the welcoming ethos that hergrandmother’s ryokan applies to its guests: Accept all, and reject none.” – Indiewire.comIf you wondered what special, secret recipes must exist atCafé Funiculi Funicula Sweet BeanThe manager of a pancake stall finds himself confronted with an oddbut sympathetic elderly woman looking for work. A taste of herhomemade red bean paste convinces him to hire her, which starts arelationship that is about much more than just street food.“ this tender drama is no mere foodie indulgence. Zeroing in on oneparticular dish, the Japanese confection dorayaki, the story uses simpleingredients as it brings together three lonely souls.”– Los Angeles TimesIf you were fascinated by the magic behind Before the Coffee Gets Cold Weathering with YouA high school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able tomanipulate the weather.“In the latest from the director of the hit anime Your Name, two teenagers findmysterious rays of hope amid catastrophe.” – New York TimesCozy with your coffee and wishing for more? Find additional film recommendations in this collection:hoopladigital.com/collection/1192912 QUESTIONS WITHFor each and every hoopla Book Club Spotlight we’ve presented, you can find several materials attheclub.hoopladigital.com–in addition to these Companion meeting planners, locate discussion guides,exclusive author interviews, Recommended Next Reads, and more! We’d love to know how your bookclub has used these–tag @hoopladigital or #hooplabookclub to share with us and book clubs aroundthe world!UCHITOSHIKAZU KAWAGBefore the Coffee Gets Cold DISCUis my favoriteit coffee?teaIshooplawarm drink?Japanese greenyour favoriteto be honest,it is because I’vemy favorite,” butdigital: What’smeal. I assume“Yes, coffee istea with eachI first drank coffee,I wish I could say,drink hot greenstudent whennow as aToshikazu: Oh, drink. Even in the summer Imiddle schoolback then. ButI think I was amy choice of drinkmy childhood.Kawaguchi warmit sinceso it didn’t become good at it, it’s very difficult.been drinkingby its bitterness,I’m not yetcoffee beans.and I was shockedHow didroasting my ownof this novel.grown-up, I amaffected the writinga challenge?process as a playwrightthe new formatyour creativeways it madeafter I was approachedhd: Discuss howAre there anyit into a novela playthis benefit you?happened to adapt creative processes of writingdrama, then Ime atheas a theatricalplay. Going throughand director influencedTK: It first playedwatched the stage experiences as a playwritersince I watchedes, myby my editor whocharacter’s motionactors’ performanceasily recall each I saw on the stage when I startedand watchingthis novel. I couldwritetoon stage)to capture whatlot when I started at our rehearsal hall. I triedwas reality (realitygoing on stageactors’ realtimesas if what wasthem so manywas to expressand when II tried to write. My intentionnovel that I wrote,my imaginationto write this book.firstfromverytheeverythinghow to start. YetCold wasinstead of writingthe Coffee Getsdidn’t have a clueone thing,by words. Beforeas a writer andcareful aboutperformancesI was immatureI tried to be very watched the play won’tI realized thatplay into a novel,whomystarted to write,andof translatingso that the audienceYet the expression of a playduring the process the same vibe as in the playInand vice versa.performance.through actors’reading the novel,which is to capturediscomfort when In a play, we express emotions As I mentioned, I never wrotehave a sense ofto expresshis writing skill.different matters.what I wantedemotions througha novel are totallymy way to expressshould expressa novel, an author I suffered for a long time findingandup thea novel before,I should buildthe answer: thatexample,in words.I came up within the play. Fore time writing,s weren’t mentionedthat Fusaki wasAfter a long, troublesomThese background reason behind the magazinehow Nagareeach character.each other, theKumi grew apart, thosebackground ofGoro got to knowHirai and her sisterI addedhow Fumiko andwrite words. Why she wants to travel forward.couldn’tshereading, and why cousin Kei Tokita told him thathisTokita felt whento the story.ally formore richnessnot known internationmake you wantepisodes to putliterature “isin your countrythat Japanesesubject matterThe Japan TimesDid this gap inhd: We read inother factors?on time travel.”or were therethere aresignature workabout time travel,about whetherand never thoughtto write specificallyAs aparticular article,is interesting.know about that in Japanese literature. ThatTK: Oh, I didn’tmyself theon time travelimposed uponsignature worksan author, I alwaysthat peopleplaywriter anduniversal. A story andstory which iscan readnowgoal to write afromor 30 yearsby peopleback in the 1980s can be read and understoodstorybecause I thoughtsympathize. A. I used time traveluse thefrom any background In that way, I was lucky toverytheme.travel” which isit is a universalbackward” or “timetoo.concept of “travel Japan, but in other countries,inpopular not .comin time.would go backTheythese charactersfour reasonsforsettled on thedistinct.the relationshipDiscuss how yourelatable, yetcame up withthosefeeling. First, Itogether withseem very universallywhich carry universal and “Parent and Child.” Then“Lovers,”about reasonsIn the story ofuple,” “Sisters,”I was thinkingis also universal.herare “Lovers,”“Coutual theme. Thisharacter. Thereouple,” one losesSSION GUIDEThis book wasoriginally aplay. Do younotice a playwrigAs an internatioht’s touch inthe chaptersyou think has nal bestseller, this bookat all?has been translatedsuch universalappeal?the world over.What aboutDiscuss eachthe story docharacter’sreasons forsatisfied withtime travelingthe knowled. Do you feelge gained asany charactera result?—or all of them—Which of therules do youwasthink are fair?Which ruledid you findWould youthe most maddenitime travelyourselfback in timeng?or to the future? if given the optionunder the book’sparameters?Discuss theIfyes,would youconcept oftravelduty to others,and its centralityTraveling inin this novel.time is exciting,who took thisbut also a bitrisk and theirof a sacrificereward.and a gamble.Discuss eachDiscuss theof the characterghost—howsdo you thinkthe café? Imagineshe endedthe ghost’sup in her currentstory.fate? Will sheThe magic—dever be ableto leaveidthat one seat? you deduce it is foundin the café,Any conclusiothe actual coffeens?beverage, the staff servingDid you findany of the characterit, ors particularlylikeable or unlikeablDiscuss thecafé staff ande?their role inproviding andprotectingDiscuss thisthis magicalnovel’s moreexperience.sentimental,more rootedmagical realismin science fiction.through thecafé as are often Did you wish to know approach to time travelversus thosemore aboutcovered in depthstoriesthe technicalin the sci-fiPer the rules,aspects of timestories?you cannottravelvastly impactThat said, dothe past oryou believefuture, andainfluencedtraveling withthose visited possibility exists thatthe interactiothat goal isin some small,prohibited.ns held duringnuanced way?each travelTo that end,would havediscuss theidea of ‘butterflysmall thingsimpacting complexeffect’systems in a in day-to-day life: the theorynon-linear way.ofIf given thechance to timevisit or anyonetravel, is thereyou’d mostalike to see—eith year in your life you’dmost like toer past or future?Before the CoffeeGets Cold hasIf you werenow been inmakingchange anything a film out of the book, book form, on stage,and onwho wouldfor that version?you cast? Would screen.youEager to keepBeforeQ&A with Toshikazu the Coffee Gets Cold discussiongoing?Kawaguchi, plusavailable at theclub.hoa Meeting Planner Check out our exclusiveAuthoropladigital.com.and Recommended Next Reads,5

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