Spice. (2025)

A cabaret club in a provincial city. Driver Kitano Yuki works as the personal driver for the top cabaret club hostess Sugimoto Natsuki. One day, he clashes with the manager over Natsuki’s absence without permission. Yuki visits Natsuki and finds out that it is the 49th day memorial service for her mother who passed away. Natsuki has sorted out her feelings, and Yuki suggests that they quit the club together and leave the town in the kitchen car that the manager borrowed for the shuttle service. While driving the kitchen car without any plan, Yuki and Natsuki happen to pass by a curry chain restaurant. When they enter the restaurant, they are hit with a shocking aroma of spices that is not found in chain restaurants! Then, a young man comes out of the kitchen shouting, “You’re fired!” and runs out of the restaurant. It is Morita Akira, who is in charge of cooking at the restaurant. Yuki and Natsuki notice Akira running out of the restaurant and sneaking into the kitchen car. Shocked by the “aroma of those spices”, Natsuki asks him to make curry…