Tanpopo is a 1985 live-action Japanese film. It consists of a series of vignettes, interwoven with one continuous plotline, all focused on food. The production, consumption, and culture around food are a focus, but each little story has its own twist on food and often makes fun of people who take food too seriously or who aren't having fun with it.
This was cute and weird and unexpected. I got invited to a neighbor's for movie night and this was the movie, with no context-setting at all. I was delighted to attempt to understand some Japanese (women: fully intelligible, children: adorable, gruff men: incomprehensible) and baffled at some of the sudden turns and juxtapositions of different vignettes. Learning western manners but slurping like crazy! Cooking an omelette on the run from a security guard! A Rocky-like training montage for kitchen skills! The egg yolk eroticism came out of left field!
A good movie to watch after dinner (should be avoided when hungry). Provides an interesting take on Every Single Important Aspect In Producing And Consuming A Bowl Of Shoyu Ramen.
This post's theme word is 俺 (ore), a first-person pronoun meaning "I" but specifically when wanting to convey "I (gruff and arrogant prick)". Truly other languages' grammars give a wonderful expressibility that I wish English would borrow more often!
