SOUP

Special Event for Ramen Fans

Venue(s): Shinjuku Piccadilly
September 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26, 2024 (Tuesday or Thursday): 17:20-
Language: In Japanese with English
Official website: soup.movie/
Theater website: www.smt-cinema.com/site/shinjuku/index.html
Theater website: www.smt-cinema.com/site/shinjuku/access.html
Tariff: Screening: Check theater website; Tour: ¥25,000 (adults only).
Advance tickets: Tours can be booked up to 4 days in advance. Ticket for screenings can be purchased at the theater or on the theater website 3 days prior to each screening.
Talk event: Shinjuku Deep Culture Tour, including the screening. Details below.

Title: すうぷ (Soup)
Director: Hiroaki Yamaguchi (山口 寛明)
Duration: 46 min.; the tour ends at 21:00 at Shinjuku Station.

Here's a unique opportunity to celebrate culinary cinema either on your own, or as part of a special “tour” that  is sure to enhance your viewing experience and deepen your appreciation for one of Japan’s most popular gourmet dishes, tonkotsu ramen.

Hiroaki Yamaguchi’s Soup will be screening with English subtitles starting on September 3, and you can either buy regular tickets via Shinjuku Piccadilly, or join a 4-hour Shinjuku Deep Culture Tour operated by Japan Travel Bureau, which includes a movie ticket with a beer and a visit to two lively bars near the theater after the screening.

Hiroaki Yamaguchi is a young filmmaker based in Fukuoka, and his mid-length Soup is based on the true story of how the iconic, milky-white broth of Fukuoka‘s tonkotsu ramen came to be.

During the Showa period (1926-1989), tonkotsu ramen soup was still clear in Kyushu. In the film, we meet Hirofumi, a young man working for a fountain pen company who sees the future in ballpoint pens. His boss isn’t so convinced and suggests that he try to sell 2,000 pens and see how it goes.

But due to an ordering error, 20,000 ballpoint pens are delivered, and Hirofumi has to devise a way to sell them all or lose his job. When Hirofumi goes to his favorite ramen restaurant that night, Kyuzo, the owner of the restaurant, tells him that debt collectors are pressuring him to repay his debts and he can’t open the shop because he failed to prepare the ramen broth. The plot thickens… and so does the soup.

Shinjuku Piccadilly