SYNOPSICS
Râmen zamurai (2011) is a Japanese movie. Naoki Segi has directed this movie. Satoshi Izumi,Dai Watanabe,Sayaka Yamaguchi are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. Râmen zamurai (2011) is considered one of the best Comedy,Drama movie in India and around the world.
Hikari (Dai Watanabe) receives news that his father passed away. Hikari decides to take over his father's ramen shop. To do so, Hikari quits his job at a design company and goes back to his home town of Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture. Now, taking over his father's shop Hikari has problems recreating his father's recipe. Hikari thinks back to when he was a child and how his father believed Hikari never used his imagination. Hikari relies on his memory in attempt to recreate his father's recipe.
Râmen zamurai (2011) Reviews
A good Japanese one for who wants to know the Samurai spirit for cooking Raman
A good Japanese one for who wants to know the Samurai spirit for cooking Raman When we think of Samurai spirit, we might think of belly-cutting first. However, what is shown in this movie is another big part of Samurai spirit - "to protect". In this movie, the son came back from Tokyo, the most modern city in Japan, back to his hometown, a small village in Fukuoka to inherit his father's Raman Stand. Back to his father's generation, the owner needed to pay protection fee to the gangsters to run the business. But his father ended up becoming the protector for the owners running the other stands from these gangsters and even fought with the government when the stand was informed to be torn down for new city re-construction. The chief of the gangsters went to his father's stand to have his last supper right before he died. So the son wants to recreate again the same beloved flavor his dad created originally. By finding the original flavor, he finds the real him inside, too, that he wants to revive the village with what's originally attracted people to be in his hometown – the food stands. By doing so, he protected the inherited Samurai spirit from his dad and also the traditions in his hometown. And, in Japan, making a good bowl of Raman is like an art that you need to do it right in every detail to ensure it comes out "perfectly". The soup must be cooked with certain ingredients – ginger, pig bones, soy source, salt, seaweed, etc. (in this movie, the special secret is the fried pig fat for his father's flavor specially) and with certain portion; and the noodles need to be with certain thickness, certain width and be cooked with certain time only in hot and cold water. And then the combination of the soup and noodles together with all other ingredients – pork, bamboo shoots, half-cooked egg and dry seaweed slice can become a eatable art, a piece of work that was made with 100% concentration, just like what it will be needed for your life. So, next time, when I will go to a have a bowl of Raman, I'll be thinking of this movie and how much it contains with the cook's heart in this single bowl of Raman.