The Ramen Girl

(2008)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 379 votes

Genres: Romance, Comedy, Drama

Year: 2008

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: Japan, United States of America

Director: Robert Allan Ackerman

Cast: Бриттани Мёрфи, Tammy Blanchard, Gabriel Mann, Тосиюки Нисида, Soji Arai, Кимико Йо, Рэндзи Исибаси, 桃生亜希子, 山崎努, ウダタカキ

Plot

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

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?