Japanese Food Drama, Tonight on KTSF [moved from San Francisco board]
A new food-related Japanese drama starts tonight at 8:30 on KTSF Channel 26. It will be subtitled in English.
"Teppan Shojo Akane" looks to be about a girl and her teppan grill. Searching for her lost father.
In the previews she grills up a pretty mean looking Kansai-style okonomiyaki.
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applehome
Apr 25, 2008 10:18 AM
Anyone interested, here's a DVD source for the series - subbed in English:
http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.5...
Episodes 1-9 are available on line if you search, but they're not subbed (not a problem for me, but simultaneous translating for my wife & kids takes its toll...).
Shoojo or shoujo = young girl, so the title is Teppan Girl Akane (her name is Akane). I watched the first and it could be interesting - nowhere near as funny as Kuitan, but less kistchy in that Japanese niko-niko way. There are definitely food concepts - the buta-tama, for one. The idea of elevating Okonomiyaki to the heights of ramen (as it was in Tampopo) seems a bit farfetched... it just doesn't have the history. But it was a great show in the Dotch series (Hiroshima vs. Osaka), so maybe there's something more to it than throwing on the kitchen sink. Gotta find that buta-tama...
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re: Debbie M
E Eto
May 8, 2008 12:23 PM
Kuitan 2 is pretty lousy. Seems like they ran out of material by episode 4 or 5 and had to make up an entire new storyline just to keep it going. If you're watching for the drama/comedy, I would say don't watch any more. If it's for the food, then, well, it's marginally watchable.
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