Udon

plays with Jonathan Gold Presents: Udon

(Japan, 2006, 134 mins)

Producer: Chihiro Kameyama
Screenwriter: Masashi Todayama
Cinematographer: Akira Sako
Editor: Takuya Taguchi
Cast: Yusuke Santamaria, Manami Konishi, Tortoise Matsumoto, Kyoka Suzuki, Takeshi Masu, Jin Katagiri
Music: Toshiyuki Watanabe

UDON is a high-spirited comic ode to the power of Japan’s ubiquitous noodle. After failing to make it as a stand-up comedian, a young man drags himself home to Kagawa Prefecture, where his father owns a small udon factory. When an article he writes for a local magazine sets off a nationwide udon craze, he learns there’s more to the simple noodle, and the people who make them, than he ever expected.

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