Trailer - The Chef of South Polar (Nankyoku Ryōrinin)

Full trailer for Shuichi Okita’s The Chef of South Polar (Nankyoku Ryōrinin).

The film is based on two autobiographical novels by Jun Nishimura and centers around a research expedition living in Dome Fuji Station near the South Pole. The area, which is located far from Showa Station, has an average temperature of -54 degrees celcius and is situated 3800 meters above sea level. A cook named Nishimura (Masato Sakai) leaves his family behind in order to assist the expedition. Out in the middle of nowhere, Nishimura manages to cook extravagant meals consisting of high-class ingredients like foie gras, spiny lobster, and Matsuzaka beef in this true story of wintering party male bonding.

Distributor Tokyo Theatres Co., Inc. will be releasing “The Chef of South Polar” at Theatre Shinjuku on August 8, 2009 with a subsequent national road show beginning on August 22nd.

Source: Yahoo! Japan Movies