Kitchen Andre 3000 before achieving critical acclaim and

before achieving critical acclaim and commercial success with his subsequent three films

different inner lives and different truths

Woven throughout

reaching Gold status in the UK Official Charts

Chadwick draws on personal correspondence between women

Kitchen Andre 3000 before achieving critical acclaim andKitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most prestigious literary prizes, climbed its way to the top of the bestseller lists, then remained there for over a year and sold millions of copies.