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BEYOND RAMEN

By Masato KOBAYASHI

MK FILM - as SALES DVD-video, TV, Airline, Theatrical, VOD, World / PROD

Documentary - Completed 2026

BEYOND RAMEN goes inside the life and the kitchens of Shigetoshi Nakamura, a legendary ramen chef of NAKAMURA and his new style mazemen restaurant NICHE in New York.

- Year of production
- 2026
- Genres
- Documentary, Art - Culture
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Masato KOBAYASHI
- Writer(s)
- Masato KOBAYASHI
- Cast
- Shigetoshi NAKAMURA, George KAO, David FOSTER, Kenshiro UKI, Andrew TOWNSON, Jessie STEIN
- Producer(s)
- Masato KOBAYASHI (MK FILM), Hiroto NAKAMURA (AFURI)
- Synopsis
- Japanese national food Ramen is becoming a world comfort food. Celebrated Japanese super ramen master Shigetoshi Nakamura, who has been making ramen for two decades and got huge success of his shop Nakamura-ya in Kanagawa Japan. The chef, known as one of four “Ramen Gods”, moved to the US and opened his popular eponymous restaurant Nakamura in New York in 2016. He has trained many ramen chefs in Japan and the US as his mission. Shigetoshi is considered as a global authority. Now he is also focusing on eclectic version of Mazemen, which is a style of ramen without broth, and his sensational new restaurant Niche opened right next door of Nakamura in January 2019. BEYOND RAMEN tells the ramen savant Nakamura’s innovative works and exciting journey.