The Ramen Girl

 

There are times when you look in a different direction you see something else. I was just watching the movie “The Ramen Girl” on TUBI. While I have seen it before, and enjoyed it, it has a lot going for it that just an unusual ROM.

 

It is about as American girl in Japan who decided to learn how to make ramen. And she does not know Japanese but  takes the local ramen shop owner to be her Sensei.

 

What follows as she enters and slowly move forward in her quest, to me also likely gives a glimpse at what those art that became known as karate were like. There have been more than a few tales about what the student-Sensei relationship was like. This movie has many similarities. Of course it isn’t about karate, rather it is about noodles.

 

The interesting thing is the Ramen Grand Master tastes her creation, and calls it good, but she needs more time and less originality.

 

But her teacher/Sensei declares her his successor and finally she opens a Ramen restaurant in Paris.

 

In a way there was not a grandmaster of the past who passed on an instructor’s student, and it was the instructor who likely declared an individual as his successor.

 

One can find meaning in the most unusual places.