UDON (DVD) (Premium Edition) (English Subtitled) (Japan Version) DVD Region 2
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Kevin Kennedy
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February 3, 2008
This customer review refers to Udon (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version)
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February 3, 2008
This customer review refers to Udon (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version)
A very tasty film
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A movie about soup? Well, not really. "Udon" has bigger fish to fry, so to speak. It really is about the search for the kind of career that imparts a sense of fulfillment, a sense of having done something consequential. It also is about growing to appreciate the legacy of one's parents. Kosuke (Yusuke Santamaria) fled his backwater prefecture (and his father's noodle shop) to seek stardom as a stand-up comic in America. Years later, he returns to his hometown under a cloud of debt and failure. Desperate for work, he finds a job selling an unsuccessful local magazine. Together with the quirky staff of the magazine, he seeks to increase its circulation by including reviews of the prefecture's multitude of udon noodle shops. They develop a unique conversational style of writing their reviews and seek to turn the search for these obscure noodle shops into a kind of adventure by describing their location only by means of cryptic clues. The idea catches on; the magazines sell. Soon a udon craze develops that captivates Japan, turning this backwater prefecture into a vacation destination. Like all crazes, this too must come to an end. When it does, Kosuke must confront the question he has been postponing: What will he do with his life? Will he take over his father's noodle shop or seek greener pastures? Mr. Yusuke is terrific as the restless Kosuke, as is the lovely Konishi Manami as the writer and fellow researcher of the udon shop reviews. "Udon" tells its story in a whimsical and often wildly humorous style. The film borrows liberally from previous Japanese movie classics, including Yamada Yoji's Tora-San series and Itami Juzo's "Tampopo". (Check out the scene in which Kosuke first returns to his home from New York; it is a carbon copy of scenes of Tora-San returning from the road to his aunt and uncle's sweet shop.) "Udon" also captures something of the lilting charm of those old films. It manages to be sweetly sentimental without becoming soupy (forgive the pun!). I recommend it very highly. |
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