The Ramen Girl
Her romance is on pins and noodles.
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a râmen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
- Year : 2008
- Country : Japan, United States of America
- Genre : Romance, Comedy, Drama
- Studio : Media 8 Entertainment
- Keyword : japan, cooking, language barrier, restaurant, restaurant owner, family business , interracial romance, fish out of water, tokyo, japan, gaijin, american abroad, teacher student relationship, expatriate, magic realism, broken heart, western perspective, culture shock, ramen, japanese cuisine
- Director : Robert Allan Ackerman
- Cast : Brittany Murphy, Tammy Blanchard, Gabriel Mann, Toshiyuki Nishida, Soji Arai, Kimiko Yo