Nankyoku Ryorinin or Chef of South Polar (Japanese Film Festival

The Chef of South Polar

During the 2013 Japanese Film Festival I caught this movie....

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Profile

• Movie: The Chef of South Polar
• Romaji: Omoshiro Nankyoku Ryurinin
• Japanese: 南極料理人
• Director: Shuichi Okita
• Writer: Jun Nishimura (novel), Shuichi Okita
• Producer:
• Cinematographer: Akiko Ashizawa
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Issei Oda
• Release Date: August 8, 2009
• Runtime: 125 Min
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Based on two autobiographical novels by Jun Nishimura, "Antarctic Chef" centers around a research expedition living in Dome Fuji Station near the South Pole. The area, which is located far from Showa Station, has an average temperature of -54 degrees celcius and is situated 3800 meters above sea level. A cook named Nishimura (Masato Sakai) leaves his family behind in order to assist the expedition. Out in the middle of nowhere, 

Nishimura manages to cook extravagant meals 

consisting of high-class ingredients like foie gras, spiny

lobster, and Matsuzaka beef in this true story of wintering party male bonding.

Nishimura who has been working as a cook at the Maritime Safety Agency, has been dispatched to The Fuji Dome Research Station in the south polar. The only entertainment was almost food in south polar, where except penguins and seals, even the viruses couldn't live long. Nishimura uses especially luxurious ingredients and prepares different delicacy for the staff, giving them a bit of pleasure. Nishimura gets the moral support from his family, while he is far away from Japan. But one day he receives a shocking fax massage from his daughter saying: "Every day is fun since daddy has gone away."

Cast

Masato Sakai	Katsuhisa Namase	Kitaro (1948)	Kengo Kora	Kosuke Toyohara
Jun Nishimura	Mr. Moto	Taicho	Brother	Doctor

Naomi Nishida	Kanji Furutachi	Daisuke Kuroda	Masahiro Kohama	Karin Ono
Miyuki	Pastor	Bon	Mr.Hira	Yuka

Saori Koide	Takashi Ukaji	Kyusaku Shimada
Ms. Shimizu	Suzuki	Captain Food cooked by the Chef of South Polar

 sushi, onigiri, ramen, 

  Ramen done Nami Iijima style (Chef of the South Pole, 2009) 

 Matsuzaka beef

  spiny

lobster

(heck even Lobster Thermidor! )

 chicken

 sushi

 the Chef

 the captain craves Ramen

Hilarious, unbelievable....(where did he get all the ingredients and the skill to whip such fantastic dishes) heck, even thermidor lobster, and fine dining with foie gras!

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