Udon (2006)

Abruptamente abandonada pelo namorado, uma jovem americana (Murphy) se vê de repente em Tokyo totalmente perdida e sozinha, em meio a uma cultura completamente diferente da sua. Tentando reorganizar a sua vida, Abby de uma hora para outra se percebe frequentando o restaurante de ramen típico de seu bairro; depois de observar os mágicos efeitos que a comida do restaurante tinha sobre os seus clientes, Abby se convence de que o seu destino é se tornar uma chefe de cozinha especializada em Ramen. Ela consegue convencer o chefe japonês tirano e temperamental de onde ela trabalha a ensiná-la a arte de se fazer um bom ramen. Apesar do péssimo relacionamento entre os dois, ambos descobrem juntos o ingrediente mais importante de todos; cozinhar com amor.

Sentaro gere uma pequena pastelaria de dorayakis – uma especialidade japonesa que consiste em duas panquecas recheadas com doce de feijão (“an”, no original). Quando Tokue, uma senhora com cerca de 70 anos, se oferece para trabalhar na pastelaria, ele aceita com relutância. No entanto, Tokue rapidamente prova que a sua receita de “an” é mágica. Graças à sua receita secreta, o negócio de Sentaro floresce rapidamente. Com o tempo, Sentaro e Tokue abrem os seus corações, e desenvolvem uma relação de amizade que vai revelando também algumas feridas do passado.

Baseado em um mangá de Daisuke Igarashi, o filme conta a história de Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto), uma jovem que decide sair da cidade e voltar para o campo. Ela agora vive sozinha e sobrevive com os próprios alimentos que planta.

No subsolo de um edifício de escritórios em Tóquio, Jiro Ono, antigo mestre do sushi de 85 anos, trabalha incansavelmente em seu restaurante de fama internacional, o Sukiyabashi Jiro. Enquanto seu filho Yoshikazu encara a pressão de ficar no lugar do pai e gerenciar o lendário restaurante, Jiro-san persegue implacavelmente sua busca pelo sushi perfeito.

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.

When eight men are assigned to live 14,000 kilometers from home in inhumanly cold conditions, food becomes their new existence.

A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and establish a bakery and café called Mani. One cooks. The other bakes. Everyone walks out happy.

A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.

The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.

Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Matsunaga Chie, who attends a music college, and they start dating. Each day becomes all the more bright and enjoyable for Shingo because of the lively Chie. She loves to laugh, sing and eat. After one and a half years, Chie is employed as a music teacher. One day, Shingo is informed that Chie has breast cancer. After thinking about it, he decides to share a lifetime with her and proposes. His proposal gives her the courage to undergo surgery which she had been mulling over. One day, Chie starts to teach 5-year-old Hana the “important things in life” such as laundry, cleaning and cooking. She thinks that even if she is no longer around, her daughter and husband will be able to live.

Malik Bishop is the best killer in the business, but when his crimelord employer wants his girlfriend, who may be unfaithful, eliminated, Bishop doesn't count on falling in love with the woman. Now he must choose between his heart and, perhaps, his life.

The story of a mom whose son healed from all allergies and asthma after consuming raw milk, and real food from farms. It depicts people all over the country who formed food co-ops and private clubs to get these foods, and how they were raided by state and local governments.

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter eccentric local inhabitants.

In Ramen Heads, Osamu Tomita, Japan's reigning king of ramen, takes us deep into his world, revealing every single step of his obsessive approach to creating the perfect soup and noodles, and his relentless search for the highest-quality ingredients.

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.

After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young woman in her mid 20's becomes so heart broken she loses her voice. To recover, the woman decides to go back to her hometown and stay with her free-spirited mother whom she has not been very close to in the past. The young woman then decides to open a restaurant which accepts only one customer a day, allowing for thoughtful preparation for that customer.

Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.

Wataru, his woman Kotoe and daughter Shiori are ranchers and dairy farmers in Hokkaido in northern Japan. He is following in his father's footsteps. A visiting chef cooks an unforgettable meal with his ingredients, which prompts the family to open their own restaurant and reproduce the magic.

Um documentário comovente sobre o homem que abriu uma lendária casa de lámen em Tóquio.