Food: Spam and Kimchi
A young Sasha is left at home by herself and decides to make spam and rice for dinner. It’s exceptionally plated but hollow and sad to be eaten alone while watching Clarissa Explains It All. We then get the introduction of a young Marcus knocking at the door and inviting her over for soup with an adorable plea not to make him one of the weird lunch thermos losers due to excess dinner soup. She agrees…
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Always Be My Maybe 2019
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Godzilla Minus One 2023
Food: Baby Broth Gruel
Home from war, Shikishima is laden with guilt in several directions. He takes it upon himself to support Noriko and Akiko (the baby she found and rescued). At first they feed her a broth but are scolded by the neighboring woman that babies can’t survive simply on that. In her good grace she gives them her last bag of white rice to make a gruel that can sustain the baby. This inherent desperation leads him to…Translated from by
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Tampopo 1985
Food: Opening Movie Meal
Immediately breaking the 4th wall, the man in white has a spread of meats, veggies, and champagne in front of him at the theater. He is the movie’s own “turn off your phone” moment before that became standard practice and berates the man near him for eating loud curry flavored chips.Food: Storybook Ramen
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000
Food: Horse Stew
Having escaped from the chain gang, the trio hitch a ride with a blind prophet and make their way to Pete’s kin Wash Hogwallop to help remove their shackles. He does so and offers them food and a place to stay for the night. Around the table they eat horse stew that Wash thinks might be turning, and talk of how his wife left him and his boy. She ‘R-U-N-N-O-F-T.’ It looks as appetizing as it sounds…Translated from by
