Movie: Udon
Romaji: Udon
Japanese: Udon
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro
Assistant Director: Takafumi Hatano
Writer: Masashi Todayama
Producer:
Cinematographer:
Release Date: August 26, 2006
Runtime: 134 Min.
Movie Studio: Fuji TV
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt.
Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled father ...and a bowl of noodles. Namely, "udon" noodles. The town is built around udon, sustained by udon, nationally famous for udon. The region even lends its name to a particular type of udon - "Sanuki Udon."
It is the town's fixation with udon that essentially drove Kosuke away. Little does he realize upon his inglorious return that he - and the rest of the free world - are about to rediscover the miraculous wonder of this local delicacy.
The steam rises on a vastly entertaining film! The same talented production staff that shattered Japanese box office records with the thrilling "Bayside Shakedown" series reassembles to explore the mysteriously delectable depths of Japanese folk cuisine with UDON, thick noodles made from only flour, water and salt. From such humble ingredients comes a noodle dish so simple, so cheap, yet so infinitely profound in flavor and satisfying in consistency, that it has become an irreplaceable staple of the local diet, written into their culinary DNA. Udon is "soul food."
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
Sosuke Ikematsu
Yo Oizumi
Kotaro Koizumi
Daijiro Kawaoka
Tsuyoshi Muro
Hosshan
Yoshiyaki Yoza
Tadahiro Aoki
Hideki Nakano - Nakanishi
Munenori Nagano
Kaoru Kusumi