These apple paht tarts with red bean paste are a fusion of Korean and American flavors on a vegan puff pastry tartlet ...

Dorayaki is a Japanese confection consisting of two small pancakes with a filling of red bean paste. In Naomi Kawase's Sweet Bean, Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) is a glum peddler who doesn't care for the ...

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayakis - pastries filled with sweet red bean paste (“an”). When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen he reluctantly accepts. But Tokue proves to ...

Growing up in Nara, Japan, I always loved eating "wagashi," or traditional Japanese sweets. My favorite was pudding and cakes made with "anko," which is sweet red bean paste. But when I moved to the U ...

Naomi Kawase's gentle study of life, loss and confectionery is easily the Japanese auteur's most accessible work to date. The word “an” translates as “sweet red bean paste” — which, at one point, was ...