the ramen girl trailer
It’s been over two years since we reported on the Ramen Girl, a movie about an American woman (Brittany Murphy) stranded in Japan, who ends up learning how to make ramen. Even though it’s starting to look like the movie might go straight to dvd, this new trailer doesn’t look half bad, thanks to Toshiyuki Nishida. What do you think?
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July 23rd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Apparently some movie fans are pretty upset of this movie… a bad remake of a 1985 version call Tampopo?
http://www.tofugu.com/2007/07/26/the-ramen-girl-makes-me-want-to-cry/
July 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am
YES YES!! i would totally go see this fun movie in theather!!
July 24th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Doesn’t look anything like Tampopo. Is it just me, or did they show the entire plot in that trailer?
July 24th, 2008 at 10:38 am
i had a chance to screen this… it’s a lilttle corny, but a lot of fun. there’s actually a tampopo connection in the film that definitely brought a smile to my face.
and yeea, ed i’m gonna totally bite you and put this trailer on my site at some point
July 24th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Brian: Yeah, I agree. And the tofugu article claims that Toshiyuki Nishida played Goro in Tampopo. Umm…no, he didn’t.
rameniac: I’m glad you liked it. It makes me look forward to the movie even more.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:09 am
yea that article got it wrong. goro was tsutomu yamazaki… he is, like a father to me LOL
July 31st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
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August 3rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
[...] to the Ramen Blog, this movie was filmed back in 2006 but has seen its delay released and might end up going straight [...]
August 4th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Oops! I suppose I did my research wrong… hmm. I wonder how that happened. I guess I just wasn’t paying attention, eh? Anyway, like I said, I’ll reserve judgment until I see it, haha.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Oh, actually, I think I kind of know what happened. Tsutomu Yamazaki (who played Goro) is listed as the “Grand Master” in The Ramen Girl’s IMDB page. Apparently I somehow (I’m still unclear on this bit) got the Grand Master character mixed up with the Maezumi character and substituted Yamazaki’s name for Nishida’s. Weird.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
This movie looks like a combination of the following:
Lost In Translation: Foreigner stuck in a country she doesn’t understand +
Kamataki: Gets in touch with the Japanese culture by +
Tampopo: Learning the art of making ramen
Shio Chashu onegaishamisu!
August 6th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
I suggested to Director Yamada of the Tora-san movies that he use Nishida as the next Tora-san after Atsumi Kiyoshi died in 1996. But the studio did not listen to me. I would LOVE to see more installments of the Tora-san series, with Nishida as the new Tora-san…..What do you think?
August 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
by the way, the movie should be spelled THE LAMEN GIRL….ramen is incorrect spelling, the actual word, as spoken in Chinese and Japanese and English is pronounced with an L, as in LA MEN, but the Japanese mis-spelled it with an R, since they cannot say the L sound. But in fact, it HAS an L sound, not an R sound, so let’s correct it now. THE LAMEN GIRL. Stop imitating the Japanese who cannot spell correctly!
August 6th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Blonson: Thanks! I’ll add you to my links
Erin: Ah, so “Goro” *is* in it. I guess that’s what Rameniac meant about the Tampopo link. Very cool!
GregInVancouver: Yeah, one of the things that came to my mind when I saw the trailer was also “hmm…there’s a bit of ‘Lost in Translation’ in this story.”