Before the Coffee Gets Cold

What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer in order to confront the man who left them; receive a letter from their husband, whose memory has been taken by early-onset Alzheimer's; see their sister one last time; and meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat; they cannot leave the café; and, finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?