Brittany Murphy talks Ramen Girl

It’s about a girl who goes to…she drops out of law school to move to Tokyo, Japan to be with her boyfriend a few years that then has to go to…he’s in computer programming. He then has to go to Osaka which is not terribly far but a couple hours away on a business trip and says he doesn’t know when he’s coming back and the apartment’s paid up. She’s then stuck there and she decides to stay. She’s sent plane tickets home by her overbearing parents.

 

So she meets some folks, a couple people, one an American girl who is working as a hostess and a British guy and they’re sort of this unique breed of people that for lack of a better term are lost in translation there but they just don’t really have … they’re aimless wanderers. And she sort of falls into being an aimless wanderer for a moment. Then she sees this red lantern across the street when she’s chain smoking on her patio and it’s this little ramen shop and she goes in and obviously she doesn’t speak Japanese and she decides to ask the man who runs the place to be her sensei and to teach her the art of ramen (laughs) which is a really ancient art.

 

It actually originated in China but it’s an ancient Japanese art form and you see how the intricacies of Japanese culture truly do affect this girl and she utilizes it for the good in her life and instead of how some other people that ended up there choose not to be a part of it or to be partiers, she takes this culture and embraces it and then is able to move on with it. It’s really a Japanese film, half of it’s in Japanese. I’m the only person speaking English the entire three-quarters of the film.