Well, I finally got around to renting "Udon, the Movie" last night from our local video store. Udon the food is a tasty wheat-based noodle which takes many hours of hard work to prepare, known (supposedly) all over Japan. Kagawa-ken, where we live, is famous for its Udon. Udon the movie came out just last year and is set in our cozy little Kagawa. The story begins in New York city, as a struggling Japanese stand-up comic tries unsucessfully to make the audience laugh. Soon he's on his way back home to backwater Kagawa, where his father runs a tiny Udon shop. A lot of it was filmed right in the shadow of our little Sanuki Fuji mountain, also at the Utazu train station; at the Seto Ohashi park; near the Marugame castle; in the Marugame covered shopping mall; and elsewhere around Kagawa. Part of the storyline is that the main characters are researching all the Udon shops around Kagawa prefecture, so they visit many mom and pop Udon restauraunts around our area.
I had heard that it might have an English track, but it didn't; so we just watched and understood what we could here and there. It's amazing how much of a movie's message can be conveyed by the music, filming setup, body messages, etc.
Here's a link to the movie's website: http://www.udon.vc/movie/.
I might try and buy it as a visual postcard of our year here.
2 comments:
we bought it and watched it this weekend...the dvd has english subtitles.
Sounds like you will have better luck online getting it with English subtitles. We will want to watch it too for sure. We have a friend who makes excellent sushi. We will invite them over when you are here. And I have started garnishing every Asian-type food, especially noodles, with chives. Yum! Nicolle asked what you could bring, Rob. Do they have dry udon noodles? Love,
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