The Ramon Girl 2008
A young woman Abby (Brittany Murphy) travels to Tokyo to see her boyfriend and he promptly breaks up with her, she when gets a job workingat a Tokyo noodle restaurant where she finds out it is an art form to create one of Japan’s favorite traditional dishes. She trains under Japanese master Maezumi (Toshiyuki Nishida) who tests her and teaches her lessons in life and cooking. This is a fun little film and I wasn’t expecting to like it so much. There is a lot about Japanese culture and traditions that most Americans like me don’t understand , when I think of noodles I think of cheap dried noodles as a food of last resort.

There are to this film credit sub titles for the Japanese; I think that if they had of put actor speaking in English it would have been very unauthentic. So there is some very interesting scenes of Tokyo that you don’t see in most films, a kind of realistic view of Japanese life. It’s nice to watch an Asian film with no martial arts, or weird horror plot, this is more of a romantic comedy and some drama. It’s a feel good movie and was suggested to me by a friend as a movie to watch and review, she was right. This is a good choose for a DVD to sit and watch on the couch with someone you love...

Directed by Robert Allan Ackerman
Written by Becca Topol
Starring Brittany Murphy, Sohee Park, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tammy Blanchard, Kimiko Yo, Renji Ishibashi