Japanese food films

[Jesse Kalin]

As a kind of counter-positive to "Tampopo," there is "Fire on the  
Plains," and central to "Seven Samurai" is rice (as well as rice and  
the other grain--sorghum? barely?)  All these are about getting food,  
rather than eating it.   Maybe more relevant: isn't there a big food  
fight in "The Family Game"?

On Oct 18, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Jesse Kalin wrote:

> Any version of "Ballad of Narayama;" Kurosawa's "Dodes'kaden" has  
> as one of its several stories the father and boy living in the VW  
> who must scrouge for food every die; the boy dies of food  
> poisoning.  Does tea count as food?
>