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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Nankyoku Ryorinin or Chef of South Polar (Japanese Film Festival

The Chef of South Polar



Antarctic chef.jpg

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

Antartic Chef-Masato Sakai.jpgAntartic Chef-Katsuhisa Namase.jpgAntartic Chef-Kitaro.jpgAntartic Chef-Kengo Koura.jpgAntartic Chef-Kosuke Toyohara.jpg
Masato SakaiKatsuhisa NamaseKitaro (1948)Kengo KoraKosuke Toyohara
Jun NishimuraMr. MotoTaichoBrotherDoctor
Antartic Chef-Naomi Nishida.jpgAntartic Chef-Kanji Hurutachi.jpgAntartic Chef-Daisuke Kuroda.jpgAntartic Chef-Masahiro Kohama.jpgAntartic Chef-Karin Ono.jpg
Naomi NishidaKanji FurutachiDaisuke KurodaMasahiro KohamaKarin Ono
MiyukiPastorBonMr.HiraYuka
Antartic Chef-Saori Koide.jpgAntartic Chef-Takashi Ukaji.jpgAntartic Chef-Kyusaku Shimada.jpg
Saori KoideTakashi UkajiKyusaku 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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