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Josh Friedland of The Food Section states: "this might sound like a bizzarro "Saturday Night Live" skit (or just a bad dream). But, it's apparently for real, as this trailer for the film will attest." Serious Eats asserts that the film is Tampopo meets Lost in Translation. Tampopo is Juzo Itami's 1985 cult comedy that as Friedland describes is "a 'noodle Western' interspersed with a series of satirical vignettes about food culture."
The film is already playing in theaters in Japan. When will it come to the U.S.? I have to admit...I'm sort of dying to see it. Make sure to check out the trailer, which is embedded after the jump.
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1-07-2009 @2:22PM Monika said... I wrote about the film a few years ago when it was getting made, and was itching to see it. But seeing the trailer kills it.
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1-07-2009 @6:09PM W. Graves said... it looks like it would be a good movie..... if it just wasnt her...
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1-07-2009 @10:26PM MattT said... Hey - that's ten-time Japanese Academy award nominated Toshiyuki Nishida, aka Pigsy from the famous Monkey series!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiyuki_Nishida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)
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1-08-2009 @12:35AM Dr. Electro said... I'll wait for it to get to TV. That way if I dislike as much as I suspect I will, I can just turn it off and I won't waste the price of a ticket. But I won't stop eating Top Ramen!
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1-08-2009 @8:24AM Dean said... This looks like "Karate Kid" meets "Tampopo" but without the friendly naivte of the former nor the cleverness of the latter. Britney Murphy takes on the role of Ralph Macchio and Nishida gets Pat Morita's role. The only parallel to "Lost in Translation" is that it involves a confused blonde in Japan. The plot "recipe" is apparent from the trailer. After viewing it, I'll go out for sushi instead of udon.
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1-08-2009 @2:18PM Shana said... god the whole tears in the soup line makes me think of that TERRIBLE movie with Buffy the Vampire Slayer being the cook in a little resto in NYC. Simply Irresistible it was called! Ugh.
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