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Overview

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Writer:
Becca Topol (written by)
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Release Date:
23 October 2008 (Russia) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
In food as in life, sometimes the missing ingredient is love.
Plot:
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a rāmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
It's Its nice to watch an Asian film with no martial arts, or weird horror plot more (11 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Brittany Murphy ... Abby
Kosei Asami ... Young Boy
Toshiyuki Nishida ... Maezumi

Gabriel Mann ... Ethan
Akiko Monou ... Mio

Sohee Park ... Toshi Iwamoto
Haruki Kobayashi ... Jin
Kimiko Yo ... Reiko
Maria Abe ... Asami
Renji Ishibashi ... Udagawa
Daisuke Takahashi ... Tom
Daniel Evans ... Charlie

Tammy Blanchard ... Gretchan
Daigo Tanji ... Taxi Driver
Thane Camus ... Wilson
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Râmen gâru (Japan)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some sexual content.
Runtime:
102 min | Germany:122 min (European Film Market)
Country:
USA | Japan
Language:
Japanese | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Jacksonville, Florida, USA more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Maezumi: I Know the problem. Your Forehead is too small. A small Forehead means a small brain. Like a monkey. You should be swinging from a tree screaming "kya kya kya".
Maezumi: If you just look at the ramen you'll feel it.
Maezumi: Stop thinking about words! Use your heart!
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9 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
It's Its nice to watch an Asian film with no martial arts, or weird horror plot, 20 May 2009
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Author: matthew willey from United States

A young woman Abby (Brittany Murphy) travels to Tokyo to see her boyfriend and he promptly breaks up with her and she gets a job works in a Tokyo noodle restaurant, where she finds out it is an art form to create one of Japan's favorite dishes. She trains under Japanese master Maezumi (Toshiyuki Nishida) who tests her and teaches her lessons in life and cooking. This is a fun little film and I wasn't expecting to like it so much. There is a lot about Japanese culture and traditions that most Americans like me don't understand , when I think of noodles I think of cheap dried noodles as a food of last resort. There are to this film credit sub titles for the Japanese; I think that if they had of put actor speaking in English it would have been very unauthentic. So there is some very interesting scenes of Tokyo that you don't see in most films, a kind of realistic view of Japanese life. It's nice to watch an Asian film with no martial arts, or weird horror plot, this is more of a romantic comedy and some drama. It's a feel good movie and was suggested to me by a friend as a movie to watch and review, she was right . Brickthrewglass.com

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