Movie: The Ramen Girl Detected quality: WEB-DL IMDb link: 0806165 IMDb rating: 6.3 (10,709 votes) Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance Director: Robert Allan Ackerman Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida, Brittany Murphy, Tammy Blanchard, Soji Arai, Kimiko Yo and others Release date: 23 Oct 2008 Release year: 2008 Runtime: 102 minutes Country: United States, Japan Plot: Abby, four years out of college, an aimless child of privilege, comes to Tokyo to be with her boyfriend, who promptly leaves for Osaka. She wants to stay in Tokyo in hopes he'll come back to her, but she's miserable: she speaks little Japanese and has a dull job as a law-firm gopher. She stumbles into the neighborhood ramen shop operated by the aging master chef Maezumi and his wife Reiko. His soup cheers Abby, so she decides to apprentice herself to him. He's uninterested, she's insistent, so he shouts at her and gives her all the cleaning to do. Weeks go by; she's persistent. Will he ever actually teach her to cook? And if he does, will she bring the requisite spirit to the job?