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To: LindyBill who wrote (3548)11/29/2002 1:14:41 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6901
 
It may seem odd to call "The Seven Samurai" a food flick, but food plays such a pivotal role. After all, the entire premise of the movie is that the bandits who are holed up in the mountain come every harvest season to steal the village's harvest, so they all pool their remaining grain and go off to find hungry samurai who are willing to work for food.

The villagers send a three farmers to a nearby town with rice for prospective samurai and millet for the farmers.

Some of the most meaningful scenes revolve around that premise so I won't spoil it.



To: LindyBill who wrote (3548)11/29/2002 4:01:05 PM
From: frankw1900  Respond to of 6901
 
But to consider whole films, probably the funniest food movie ever made is Tampopo ? a series of loosely connected sequences about the very Japanese obsession with the perfect bowl of noodles and the perfect woman to run the noodle shop.


Same guy also made 'A Taxing Woman" and a 'A Taxing Woman's Return'.

All three are terrific comedies about obsession. We're all obsessive but the Japanese flavour is remarkable...


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