Food in Asian cinema
Chapter 1
The family table in East Asian cinema
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Chapter 2
Class, status, and street food across Asia
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Chapter 3
Food as a tool for healing and memory
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Chapter 4
Culinary history and cultural preservation
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Food in Asian cinema
Ch 3 · Food as a tool for healing and memory
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Taste of home, taste of home, Healing every heart as the memories grow.
Fun Fact
Tampopo ramen master: The ramen master in Juzo Itami's Tampopo teaches that you must apologize to the pork slices before eating them to show proper gratitude.
Glossary
comfort food (noun)
Food that provides consolation or a feeling of well-being, typically associated with childhood or home cooking. In the 2018 film Little Forest, Hye-won cooks seasonal dishes to process her mother's sudden departure.
Food that provides consolation or a feeling of well-being, typically associated with childhood or home cooking. In the 2018 film Little Forest, Hye-won cooks seasonal dishes to process her mother's sudden departure.
Quiz
What simple, triangular Japanese comfort food serves as the signature dish in 'Kamome Diner'?
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What physical condition does Tokue, the elderly red bean paste master in 'Sweet Bean', live with that caused her societal isolation?
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In the 2018 film 'Little Forest', why does the main character Hye-won return to her rural hometown?
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In the film 'Sweet Bean' (An), what traditional Japanese sweet is made using red bean paste?
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In Naoko Ogigami's 2006 film 'Kamome Diner', in which European city does the protagonist open her Japanese restaurant?
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In 'Little Forest', the protagonist makes a sweet treat by boiling and preserving which autumn forest ingredient?