The Ramen Girl

About The Ramen Girl

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

The Ramen Girl is a 2008 comedy romance film directed by Robert Allan Ackerman. It runs 102 minutes and was released in February 2008.

Its themes are restaurant, teacher student relationship, fish out of water, and magic realism.

Brittany Murphy takes the lead as Abby, Tammy Blanchard as Gretchen, Gabriel Mann as Ethan, and Toshiyuki Nishida as Maezumi. The screenplay is by Becca Topol.

Ramen Shop, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and Sweet Bean make useful companions to The Ramen Girl, all filed under cooking, japan, and japanese cuisine. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 388 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.