The Ramen Girl stars Brittany Murphy. This is another movie I had never heard of that popped up on Netflix. I usually don't like Brittany Murphy but her usual style of acting (ditsy) worked for this role.Brittany's character is stranded in Tokyo and decides she wants to be taught to make ramen. Apparently it is a much bigger deal than just boiling noodles with veggies and meat. Her brut of a teacher is tough on her and requires her to really dig deep inside herself to make the perfect bowl of ramen.
The film is almost entirely in Japanese with subtitles. The story is endearing and even though there is a huge language barrier between Brittany's character and everyone else it forces the characters to communicate more spiritually.
I loved that each ingredient in the ramen soup has a meaning and each bowl is a gift to it's recipient. The film delivered a sweet story and a great message about never giving up. It also made me want noodles, noodles, noodles!
The only qualm I have is although Brittany played an innocent and a tad ditsy, sometimes it was a bit over the top.
I give The Ramen Girl 3 1/2 buns!
3 comments:
With subtitles it sounds like work to watch this one.
I little bit but you get used to the rythem of the dialog and the story is so interesting that I didn't even notice towards the end.
Wow, my spelling in that last one is terrible! I would correct it but I still don't know how to spell rythem, rythym, rytham, rythme or dialog, dialoge, dialogue there we go! I guess I could just look them up....too lazy.
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