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The Chef of South Polar
(Nankyoku ryorinin)
by Shuichi OKITA
Nishimura has a passion for cooking, but never would he have imagined the task before him now: He is unexpectedly assigned to a south polar mission to serve as head chef at the Dome Fuji station. Leaving wife and daughter behind for a year, he and the other crew members experience one existential crisis after another in the icy cold. And then they run out of Ramen!
Credits:
Japan 2009, 35mm, 125 min, Japanese with English subtitles
Director: Shuichi OKITA
Writer: Shuichi OKITA based on an essay by Jun NISHIMURA
Production: Parade
Director of photography: Akiko ASHIZAWA
World sales: Tokyo Theatres Co., Ltd.
Cast: Masato SAKAI, Katsuhisa NAMASE, Kitaro, Kosuke TOYOHARA
www.nankyoku-ryori.com
About the director: Shuichi OKITA studied film at the Japan University College of Art. Previously OKITA made several short films as well as one (his first) feature film - THE WONDERFUL WORLD (2006). THE CHEF OF SHOUTHPOLAR will be his first feature with commercial distribution.
Filmography: 2006 The Wonderful World
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Wednesday, April 14, 7:30 p.m. Festival Centre
Thursday, April 15, 10:15 p.m. Cinema Orfeo’s Erben
European premiere
NCA
[Tickets] | [Timetable, April 14]
[Tickets] | [Timetable, April 15]
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