Udon (2006)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Katsuyuki Motohiro

Writer:

Masashi Todayama (writer)

Release Date:

26 August 2006 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A dramedy about the relationship between an aspiring comic and his stubborn noodlemaker father. |

Cast

Yusuke Santamaria	...	Kosuke Matsui
Manami Konishi	...	Kyoko Miyagawa
Tortoise Matsumoto	...	Shosuke Suzuki
Kyoka Suzuki	...	Mari Fujimoto
Takeshi Masu	...	Masanori Otani
Jin Katagiri	...	Kenjiro Mishima
Jun Kaname	...	Kazuya Aoki
Fumiyo Kohinata	...	Ryoichi Fujimoto
Katsumi Kiba	...	Takutomi Matsui
Toru Emori
Sayoko Ninomiya
Mayumi Myosei
Hiroyuki Morisaki
Hideki Nakano
Munenori Nagano

Runtime:

Japan:134 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Hong Kong:I

Filming Locations:

Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

Company:

Fuji Television Network

A must see

I really enjoyed that film. Maybe I am under family influence, because my wife was born in Japan Kagawa prefecture, where this film were made, but I think it is a film that describes perfectly the life in a small Japanese rural area and how passionate Japanese are for food subjects. I saw in "Udon" many influences from Juzo Itami's "Tampopo", another food comedy, that proves that Itami is an undervalued director by both critics and audience and his influence will be seen in 21st century film makers. Despite it is a long time, you never find boring scenes and the action is intense and attractive, so you always find interests to watch the film. I'm sure that "Udon" will be one of the films that will "survive" and will still talk about it in the next decades.