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Akira Suzuki
Editor -
Masatsugu Takase
Fight Choreographer -
Masaki Tamura
Director of Photography -
Jūzō Itami
Screenplay -
Kunihiko Murai
Original Music Composer -
Masatoshi Saito
Sound Effects Editor -
Takeo Kimura
Art Direction -
Seigo Hosogoe
Producer
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CinemaSerf 7/17/2023 3:29:50AM
Nobuko Miyamoto is the eponymous lady who runs her small noodle bar always with the same regulars and... well it's all just a bit routine. That is until "Gorô" (Tsutomu Yamazaki) and his young sidekick "Gun" (Ken Watanabe) arrive and decide they are going to help her realise her dream to improve her shop. Her emporium also serves as the lynch pin for a few tangential stories that focus around her customers and their need for food - and not only for nourishment, either! My favourite has to be the old woman who insists of squishing the life out of his produce then not buying anything - much to the chagrin of the poor shopkeeper. There is also quite a fun tale of an housewife on her deathbed who rises, just before the end, to cook her family a delicious dinner; and of a gangster - clad in a white suit, who finds quite an erotic way to use his dinner, too. It is funny and quirky, this film, with some really engaging performances and the two hours it takes just flies by.
Ken Watanabe
GunTsutomu Yamazaki
GoroRikiya Yasuoka
PiskenYoshihiro Katō
Man in White Suit's HenchmanNaritoshi Hayashi
Accompanying ManToshiya Fujita
Man with ToothacheRyutaro Otomo
Ramen MasterMariko Okada
Spaghetti Teacher