Linkt is also reminiscent of her 1987 novel "Kitchen," which was filmed by Yoshi-mitsu Morita in 1989. In both films the heroine is a young woman left alone after a death -- of a beloved grandmother in "Kitchen," of a mother in "Argentine Baba." And in both she finds spiritual refuge in the kitchen -- cooking in the earlier book, baking bread in the latter, as well as support from an elder, wise figure belonging to a socially marginalized group -- a transsexual in "Kitchen," an eccentric cat lady in "Argentine Baba."
