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Asura - A New Food-Laden Series from Japan

By liuzhou
13 hours ago in Food Media & Arts

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/167395-asura-a-new-food-laden-series-from-japan/

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liuzhou

Posted 13 hours ago

Some of us fondly remember this topic.

The director, Hirokazu Kore-eda has a new series on Netflix, again set in Japan. It is also said that

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there is a lot of food here, as should be expected from Kore-eda. This is not a series to watch when even remotely peckish. Food is ceremonial, bonding, a plot driver and a focus. There are Fuji apples (for their mother, Fuji), rice cakes, pickled cabbage, endless platters of sushi. Food is savoured and shared. I have never been so desperate to gobble up everything on the screen.

‘Asura is the best Netflix drama in years’: this strikingly beautiful show will leave you salivating | Television | The Guardian

I have downloaded it (7 hour-long episodes) and will be watching over the next few days and elaborating.

...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

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