"If tomorrow were the end of the world, what would you want to do?" "Eat a lot of delicious food!" The above dialogue appeared in the movie "Seagull Canteen". When it comes to Japanese food movies, there are three major characteristics: the appetizing picture, the slow and warm plot and the fresh and warm tone. This time, we have compiled 9 popular Japanese food movies for everyone, including "Late Night Canteen", "The Last Recipe: The Tongue of the Kirin", etc., let's learn about the new!
▋(1) "Restaurant in the Sky": A taste of hokkaido that makes people happy
The story takes place in a small town in Hokkaido, where the protagonist "Geori" runs a ranch, and his neighbors and friends are vegetable farmers, shepherds, fishermen and cheese chefs, who share ingredients with each other and live a peaceful and self-sufficient life. One day, the chef of a well-known restaurant was touched by the fact that he would eat the ingredients they produced, and invited them to taste the food. These uncles learned that the ingredients they produced could make the dishes so delicious, so they started the idea of opening a one-day limited restaurant, which was called "The Restaurant in the Sky".
The third in the Hokkaido Ingredient Film Series, starring Hiroshi Oizumi
Before the opening of the one-day limited "Sky Restaurant", the uncles conduct special training
Unexpectedly, before the restaurant opened, the cheese chef died. Desperate to learn the secrets of making delicious cheese from his master, he was devastated and later reinvigorated by the power of friendship and food. This is the third in the Hokkaido film series starring Hiroshi Ozumi, which presents a delightful scenery of the northern country and the ingredients of the authentic north country, making people want to move to Hokkaido after watching it!
Sky Restaurant
Starring: Hiroshi Oizumi, Manami Hongami, Masao Koda
・Director: Eihiro Fukagawa
・Release date: 2019
▋(2) The Last Recipe: The Tongue of the Unicorn: A lost recipe tied to two generations of talented chefs
The plot depicts Sasaki (Kazuya Ninomiya), a talented chef with an "absolute sense of taste", who can recreate a dish that has only been eaten once. However, his self-indulgence led to business failure, and he paid off his debts by "recreating the dish that the dying man finally wanted to eat". The story begins with Sasaki receiving a commission from a rich man to find a recipe for the "Imperial Japanese Cuisine" that was lost in "Manchukuo". Crossing time, space and borders, wars and separations, the "ominous" recipe that repeatedly costs people lives not only unravels the mystery of Sasaki's life in the orphanage, but also the taste of memory and the entanglement of family feelings.
The plot is like a mystery novel, and in that wonderful 112-course dish, there is a mixture of ethnic integration and anti-war macro dreams.
Adapted from the novel "The Man with the Tongue of the Kirin", this film won the audience vote "First Place in Satisfaction" when it was released in Japan, and those who love food movies may wish to go and check it out!
Empress's Food: Kirin's Tongue (Last Recipe - Kirin's Tongue)
- Starring: Kazuya Ninomiya, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tsuyoshi Ayano, and Toyo Takeno
- Director: Yojiro Takita
・Release date: 2017
▋(3) "Love Gong Burning": Life is like boiling red beans, and it has a good taste after the fire is rolled
Also adapted from the novel, "Love Gong Yaki", starring Masatoshi Nagase and Kiki Shirin. It describes the store manager Chitaro (Masashi Nagase), who owes a bunch of debts and does gong burning only to pay off the debt, and a mysterious old woman (Kiki Shirin) and a high school girl named Wakaba, three strangers who have never been born are met by "gong burning", and the past wounds in each other's lives are also revealed, and finally get the motivation to continue to move forward in the delicious gong yaki. Masatoshi Nagase's introvertedness and Kiki's natural nature have achieved a far-reaching masterpiece under the narrative style of director Naomi Kawase.
Kiki Shirin plays an old woman who impresses the store manager with delicious red bean filling
This film is the opening film of a kind of attention unit in Cannes
An, love
- Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Shirin Kiki
・Director: Naomi Kawase
・Release date: 2015
▋(4) "Song of the Quiet Cafe": Coffee by the sea, bitterness and tenderness of waiting
The main scene of the story is the seaside, a log cabin café and a homestay. The film begins with the heroine Cape Yoshida (Hiromi Nagasaku), when she learns that her father, who has been separated for many years, has been missing due to a shipwreck for a long time and is legally to be dealt with as a death, she repays her father's debts and inherits her only inheritance, the houseboat by the sea. So she moved to the beach and converted the houseboat into a "Nighthawk Café". As night fell, she played her guitar and lit a street lamp in front of the café, waiting and missing her father.
Taiwanese director Jiang Xiuqiong describes women's resilience with beautiful long shots.
Yousha finished reading Nighthawk Star and said to Cape You, "Don't go anywhere."
The film is narrated from the perspective of the two children of Cape Eriko (Sasaki Yoshi), Who has Sand and Shota, who is like the Nighthawk who is excluded by all birds in the storybook "Nighthawk Star" that Yusa saw in the library, living alone in a café waiting for his father, and also like the Nighthawk who burns himself into the Nighthawk constellation in the book, illuminating and warming the three members of the Eriko family.
The song of Shizuki Ying (Saihatate - with a gentle fragrance and waiting)
Starring: Hiromi Nagasaku, Nozomi Sasaki
・Director: Jiang Xiuqiong
◾(5)"Komori Food light": Ordinance, locality, arrogant food,
"Komori Eating Light" is a fresh sketch about conforming to the four hours and respecting the natural ecology. Adapted from the food manga of the same name, filmed in Iwate Prefecture. Found a unique temperament of Ai Hashimoto to play a colony called Komori in the northeast, self-reliant, daily farming and cooking, with the scenery of the four seasons of the mountains, made into two movies, "Summer and Autumn" and "Winter and Spring".
The scenery of the four seasons in the countryside and the daily recipes of self-supporting girls make up a pleasing scene.
Unlike other food movies that emphasize the story behind each dish, there is also a family connection and an emotional connection to the identity of the land. In the film, Ichiko uses a monologue method that is similar to muttering to herself, describing how to make a series of home-cooked dishes with harvested seasonal ingredients after hard work day after day, interpreting the changes of the four seasons and the ecology of farming in the countryside; these dishes are also the recipes of mothers who have run away from home.
Komori Shokumitsu (Little Forest)
- Starring: Ai Hashimoto and Tsutomu Matsuoka
・Director: Junichi Mori
・Release date: 2014
▋(6) "Antarctic Chef": Food can satisfy the appetite and lift the spirit
In the isolated antarctica, where the average temperature is minus 54 degrees Celsius, noodles cannot be cooked, and steaks are eaten in extreme ways... "Antarctic Chef" describes the joys and sorrows of six scholars, a doctor and a chef who go to work alone, living together at an observation base on the Antarctic continent. Played by Masato Sakai, the chef of the expedition team, Jun Nishimura cooks three meals for the team members every day, changes the pattern with heart, and makes special dishes every New Year's Festival, so that the cuisine is not only satisfying for the mouth, but also spiritual comfort. "What to eat today" has become the biggest driving force to support everyone to survive the "eternal night" of Antarctica.
In the snow and ice, cheer each other up with warm dishes.
The rhythm of the film is like flipping through the prose, laughing at loneliness and hope in a relaxed way. Among them, everyone crowded in the telephone booth to sing happy birthday songs for the team members, and after returning to Japan safely after the end of the final observation period, the doctor who rode a bicycle to forge his own chain every day in Antarctica really participated in the triathlon competition and was far ahead, and the uncles played beach volleyball on the beach according to the agreement.
Antarctic chef
Starring: Masato Sakai
・Director: Shuichi Okita
・Release date: 2009
▋(7) "Seagull Canteen": In Northern Europe, the idyllic life between dreams and steadfastness
"Seagull Canteen", which belongs to the "faith level" status in Japanese food movies, depicts a japanese woman who opens a canteen in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, and develops a faint friendship with two other Japanese women who have come to Finland with different stories and personalities, Masako (Sasuke Sasuke), and local youths who are keen on Japanese culture. Yukie uses simple Japanese rice balls as the restaurant's signature dish, just like her character: sincere and simple, and stubborn. She took her in for the night on the first day she met Her, just because "the person who remembers the lyrics of "Science Peter Pan" must not be a bad person." Later, thanks to the help of Xiao lu and Masako, the canteen changed from being unpopular to being full.
The Seagull Cafeteria is actually a female film about realizing a dream
The three protagonists in the play are making Japanese rice balls
"Seagull Canteen" is the first Japanese film to be made entirely in Finland, and although it was an old film from 2006, it is still fresh and interesting to re-watch now. There are many seemingly ordinary but beautiful watercolor-like pictures in the film, as well as witty and thought-provoking dialogue, which gives people the courage to continue to move forward towards their dreams. It is worth mentioning that there is really a "Seagull Canteen" in Helsinki, and there are movie posters of "Seagull Canteen" hanging on the walls of the store! The reporter hopes to fly to Finland one day to eat cinnamon rolls and drink "mantra" coffee at the "Seagull Canteen".
Kaito Shokudo (Seagull Shokudo)
Starring: Kobayashi Yumi, Masako 罇, Iri Katagiri
・Director: Naoko Hagigami
・Release date: 2006
▋(8) "Late Night Canteen": What you eat is a life story
In the small alley lanes of the metropolis, there is a humble "late-night canteen" that is open from late at night. The boss is a middle-aged chef with a knife scar on his face and can make all kinds of authentic home cooking. The movie "Late Night Canteen" is based on the best-selling manga of the same name by Abe Yuro, starring Kaoru Kobayashi. In many nights, it soothed the hearts of lonely people in the city.
The film version of "Late Night Canteen", which tells the story of life with cooking, tells three life stories.
Like the structure of the TV series, the film version of "Late Night Canteen" uses different dishes and slowly tells a series of life stories. The plot is divided into three segments, with different dishes and guests. The first is the love concept of Napoli Yerome and a woman, the second is the story of yam mud rice bowl and a girl from Niigata who stayed in the late-night canteen for some reason, and the third paragraph uses curry rice to explore the complex and deep emotions behind "the starting point of people who go to the disaster area to do good deeds".
Late Night Dining Room
- Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi, Many Unwako
・ Director: Naoji Matsuoka
▋(9) "Snail Canteen": Self-healing, healing magic cuisine
Pinning emotions on food, it is adapted from Ogawa's best-selling novel of the same name.
Again, this is a story of cooking, love and reconciliation, adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by the well-known writer Itokawa, which is delicately brushed, and narrated with a large number of fantasy and magnificent pictures. It describes a girl named Lunzi (played by Yuki Shibasaki) who has a heart knot with her mother for many years, and finally heals her guests with cooking and heals herself. Rumors spread in the town that "as long as you eat the food of the snail canteen, you can do what you want" spread in the town.
After the death of her grandmother, Ryuko studied cooking and worked hard to save money, dreaming of opening a restaurant. Unexpectedly, she was stolen by her boyfriend and had nothing, and she also temporarily lost the ability to speak. She returned home with a rice bran pickle urn left by her grandmother at the time, and with a passion for cooking and with the help of her uncle-like friends, Lunzi's snail canteen opened. Only one group of guests are entertained a day, and the miracles are also placed on the guests who have eaten the food.
Shokudo Shokudo (Shokudo Snail)
Starring: Yuki Shibasaki
・ Director: Mai Tominaga
・Release date: 2010
Eat well, work hard, that's what you do with yourself. The 9 Japanese food movies introduced this time are very suitable for watching alone. At first glance, the new plain can be chewed out, but in the end, the philosophy of life can be chewed out; and the biggest common point is that "cooking can soothe people's hearts and bring happiness". When you are frustrated at work or in life, feel alienated and need to be healed, please take a look at any one of them!
I want to eat cinnamon rolls in "Seagull Canteen" and curry rice in "Late Night Canteen"! Heart-warming healing "Japanese Food Movie" must see these 9 | Tesco! Japan