Udon (2006)
Original title: うどん
Udon is a 2006 Japanese-language comedy movie directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, with a running time of 2h 14m. It stars Yusuke Santamaria, Manami Konishi and Tortoise Matsumoto.
Kosuke is 31, and tired of his hometown where nothing happens. On a whim, he departs for New York with dreams of making it big. 6 months later, he straggles home... defeated, and saddled with debt. Awaiting him are his old friends, a caring sister, a disgruntled father ...and a bowl of noodles. Namely, "udon" noodles. The town is built around udon, sustained by udon, nationally famous for udon.
Cast
- Yusuke Santamaria as Kosuke Matsui
- Manami Konishi as Kyoko Miyagawa
- Tortoise Matsumoto as Shosuke Suzuki
- Kyoka Suzuki as Mari Fujimoto
- Takeshi Masu as Masanori Otani
- Jin Katagiri as Kenjiro Mishima
- Jun Kaname as Kazuya Aoki
- Fumiyo Kohinata as Ryoichi Fujimoto
- Katsumi Kiba as Takutomi Matsui
- Tohru Emori
- Sayoko Ninomiya
- Mayumi Myosei