The Ramen Girl
(2008)
In food as in life, sometimes the missing ingredient is love.
Stars: Brittany Murphy, Toshiyuki Nishida, Sohee Park, Kimiko Yo, Reila Aphrodite
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
Writer: Becca Topol
Language: English
Studio: Media 8 Entertainment
Duration: 102
Rated: keine Altersangabe
Abby, four years out of college, an aimless child of privilege, comes to Tokyo to be with her boyfriend, who promptly leaves for Osaka. She wants to stay in Tokyo in hopes he'll come back to her, but she's miserable: she speaks little Japanese and has a dull job as a law-firm gopher. She stumbles into the neighborhood ramen shop operated by the aging master chef Maezumi and his wife Reiko. His soup cheers Abby, so she decides to apprentice herself to him. He's uninterested, she's insistent, so he shouts at her and gives her all the cleaning to do. Weeks go by; she's persistent. Will he ever actually teach her to cook? And if he does, will she bring the requisite spirit to the job?
Brittany Murphy | Abby |
Toshiyuki Nishida | Maezumi |
Soji Arai | Toshi Iwamoto (as Sohee Park) |
Sohee Park | Toshi Iwamoto |
Kimiko Yo | Reiko |
Kosei Asami | Young Boy |
Reila Aphrodite | Natsu |
Daniel Evans | Charlie |
Renji Ishibashi | Udagawa |
Gabriel Mann | Ethan |
Tammy Blanchard | Gretchan |
Daigo Tanji | Taxi Driver |
Thane Camus | Wilson |
Hako Ueno | Hanako |
Masayuki Maekawa | Vendor |
Yûya Ogawa | College Student (as Yuya Ogawa) |
Tomoyuki Kuramoto | College Student |
Yuta | Young Man at the Shrine |
NaNa | Young Woman at the Shrine |
Shinji Suzuki | Goth Boy at the Shrine |
Ken Toyama | Suzuki |
Jûdai Ikeshita | Depressed Businessman |
Sachiko Matsuura | Secretary |
Tomiko Ishii | Megumi |
Hajime Inoue | Tak |
Rei Okamoto | Midori |
Nichita Tanabe | Harumi's Colleague (as Nitta Tanabe) |
Ken Maeda | Harumi |
Takaki Uda | Akira |
Takahiro Hirano | Kuma |
Takanobu Kaneko | Udagawa's Son |
Yutaka Oda | Kendo Master |
Sonha Chô | Ueno |
Man Kato | Manager |
Kazuya Takahashi | Male Singer |
Takako Ogasawara | Elf #1 |
Mai Ishikawa | Elf #2 |
Akiko Monou | Mio |
Kaori Momoi | Mamasan (scenes deleted) |
Akiko Monô | Mio |
Masayoshi Haneda | Yuki (as Masayoshi Hanada) |
Kazumi Nakamura | (voice) |
Masayoshi Nogami | Merchant 1 |
Hideki Kurauchi | Merchant 2 |
Shû Nakajima | Merchant 3 (as Shu Nakajima) |
Ruru Furuya | Twin Babies - Emiko (as Ruru, Mimi Furuya) |
Mimi Furuya | Twin Babies - Aiko (as Ruru, Mimi Furuya) |
Naoki Saitô | Kenichi (scenes deleted) (as Naoki Saito) |
Hisako Ôkata | Maezumi's Mother |
Hisako Ohkata | Maezumi's Mother |
Tsutomu Yamazaki | Grand Master |
Haruki Kobayashi | Jin |
Tiffany Martin | NY Young Female Cook |
Sonja Inge | NY Waitress |
Sonya Inge | NY Waitress |
Justin Berti | NY Waiter |
Jorge Diaz Rodriguez | Latino Customer |
Dona Granata | Female Customer |
Justin Tyler | Restaurant Goer |
Maria Abe | Asami |
Qyoko Kudo | Mother in Metro (as Ben) |
Natsuki Kunimoto | |
Brittney Murphy | Abby |
Edward L. Papazian | N.Y. customer |
Daisuke Takahashi | Tom |
Michael Naishtut | N.Y. customer |
Genre: Comedy
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby
IMDb: 0806165