White on Rice (2009)

40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, ... See full summary »

Director:

Dave Boyle

Writers:

Dave Boyle (screenplay), Joel Clark (screenplay)

Stars:

Hiroshi Watanabe, Nae, Mio Takada

3 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Hiroshi Watanabe	...	Jimmy
Nae	...	Aiko
Mio Takada	...	Tak
Lynn Chen	...	Ramona
James Kyson	...	Tim Kim (as James Kyson-Lee)
Justin Kwong	...	Bob
Pepe Serna	...	Professor Berk
Joy Osmanski	...	Mary
Cathy Shim	...	Betty
Mark David Christenson	...	Waiter (as David Christenson)
Ron Eliot	...	Nathan
Kayako Takatsuna	...	Shiho
Jimmy Chunga	...	Stephens
Jennifer Klekas	...	Susan
Bruce Campbell	...	Muramoto (voice)

Storyline

40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.

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Plot Keywords:

funeral home | dating | color in title | film within a film | rock 'n' roll | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some violent images and sex-related humor

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA

Language:

Japanese English

Release Date:

17 March 2009 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$8,079 (USA) (11 September 2009)

Gross:

$68,410 (USA) (5 March 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Brainwave, Malatova Productions, Tiger Industry Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Jimmy: My brother-in-law thinks I'm retarded.
Tim Kim: Tak? Why do you say that?
Jimmy: Because he said, "I think you're retarded".

User Reviews

a very unusual coming of age story

This is a very funny movie. It's sort of the classic coming-of-age story, except it's about a guy who turns 40 during the course of the movie. Jimmy is just like a ten year old kid and totally oblivious to the fact that there's anything wrong with that. He goes through the movie wreaking havoc on his long suffering brother-in-law who just wants to get his marriage back to something normal. I saw this at the LA Asian Film Festival and the audience ate it up. I'm not Asian (my fiancée is Korean and worked for the fest and recommended it), I suspect there's a lot of humor here that is even more funny to Japanese people. Very funny to me was Jimmy's nephew Bob, who's as mature as Jimmy is childlike. A lot of great performances by the smaller parts. One in particular is The Banana Girl (Joy Osmanski) who you should definitely look for in other things because she really lit up the screen.

I don't know if this will ever come to the local multiplex, but you should definitely hunt it down. Well worth the effort.