Review by MELANIE DUGAN
3.5 rounded up. A sweet, low-key movie about family and food. The pace is slow, but it's an often visually beautiful film.
Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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3.5 rounded up. A sweet, low-key movie about family and food. The pace is slow, but it's an often visually beautiful film.
Title Statement | Ramen shop [DVD] / a Zhao Wei Films production ; produced by Huang Junxiang, Yutaka Tachibana, Tan Fong Cheng ; directed by Eric Khoo ; screenplay by Tan Fong Cheng, Wong Kim Hoh. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Ramen teh |
Additional Contributors | Khoo, Eric,1965- |
Saitoh, Takumi,1981- | |
Matsuda, Seiko | |
Li, Guohuang,1968 October 16- | |
Publication | [Culver City, California]: Strand Releasing Home Video,[2019]©2019 |
Extent of Item | 1 videodisc (90 min.) |
ISBN | (v.r.) |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 712267381029 |
Other Number | 3719202 |
General Notes | DVD. Disc label title. Originally released as a motion picture in 2018. Widescreen version. Special features include: trailers. |
Performance Credits | Takumi Saitoh, Seiko Matsuda, Mark Lee, Jeanette Aw, Tsuyoshi Ihara. |
Audience & Ratings | MPAA rating: Not rated. |
Languages | In Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, and English, with English subtitles. |
System Details | DVD, 5.1 surround. |
Terms of Use | For private home use only. |
Summary | After his father dies, a young ramen chef in Japan travels to Singapore hoping to learn about his mother's family and the story of his parents. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Cooks--Fiction |
Families--Fiction | |
Cooking, Singaporean--Fiction | |
Motion pictures, Singaporean | |
Motion pictures, Japanese | |
Foreign films | |
By Location | Japan--Fiction |
Singapore--Fiction | |
By Genre | Feature films |