"Thank you so much !" "You're welcome." "Thank you." "Hi Ethan." "Hey you." "I'm sorry I'm late again, I turn to the wrong station." "No worries." "Abby, this is Mio, Jin, Asami." "Nice meeting you." "Wanna get a drink?" "Hell yeah." "Bye bye." "I'll be right back." "Business." " Hi, I'm Abby!" " Hi, it's Charlie." "So you guys know Ethan?" "Who doesn't, sugar ?" "I'm Gretchen." "You sound like you're from the South?" "No, I just like to talk this way." "So Abby, fresh from the plane, I hear." "Two weeks, actually." "So wild." "I never thought I'd end up in Tokyo" "But Ethan work is here" "And I just can't stand long distance relationship, you know." "Abby, need work?" "No, thanks." "I'm all set." "I got this job as a copy editor" "At a Japanese law firm." "How prestigious." "Please, it's a joke." "They barely gave me anything to do." "So, what do you guys do?" "I drink, and Gretchen's geisha." "I'm not a geisha." "I'm a goddess." "She's a hooker." "I'm a hostess, okay?" "What's that?" "I am paid to look good good and to entertain businessmen." "Here you go." "Cheers." "Welcome to Japan." "Thanks." "Are you glad I'm here?" "So, what's going on?" "I got a new client." "I gotta move to Osaka." "They need their website up and running." "How 'bout I come with you?" "Don't you have to work?" "I hate my stupid job." "You work and i'll be the tourist." "Come on, we could just play all weekend long." "This is going to be non-stop 24/7." "I'm not gonna have anytime to hang out, at all." "When are you coming back?" "Not sure." "You know, it could be a while." "As in.." "A week .. a while ?" "Ethan?" "You know I said last night I'm glad you came." "Yea." "Well, I really wanted to say yes, but I couldn't .." ".. and that's messed up." "You know, it just really intense with Tokyo and you gotta admit it happened really fast." "What do you mean ?" "We talked about this." "No, We didn't talk about this." "You only said you're coming." "You said you wanted me to come." " No, I never said that, Abby." " Yes." "No, I know I never said that." "Yes, you did." "Abby, you're just feeling it." "So now, I'm gonna need to do what I need to do." "I gotta go." "So, you're not coming back, then?" "I never said that." "This is crazy." "Abby, I'm sorry." "I know this stinks." "But I have to do what I have to do." "I'm a traveler." "I'm proud in fact that I can pack my life in two suitcases." "Cheer up." "I might be back." "Get off, Ethan." "You jerk." "See, I thought of all people in the world.." ".. you'd understand." "Please, wait." "It's Ethan." "Leave a message." "Hi, it's me." "Look , I'm really sorry about everything." "I know that this is all my fault." "You were right." "I put a lot of pressure about me coming here." "So, I just wanna tell you I'm sorry" "And I would love to talk about this." "So, call me, okay ?" "I'll be up." "Well, I hope everything's going good." "Thanks." "Bye." "Excuse me." "Is anybody here?" "Hi." "I don't understand." "Are you open ?" "I don't know what I'm doing with my life." "I'm a complete mess." "My cousin, Heather, just got her PhD." "Here I am" "Four years out of college" "Phi Beta Kappa" "And that nothing to show for it, not one single thing." "And I thought I was so brave coming to Tokyo" ".. but" "Ethan" ".. just left me." "I'm .." "I'm so alone." "What ?" "Thank you." "Thank you." "Eat." "It's delicious." "Thanks." "Thank you." "How much ?" "Are you sure ?" "Thank you." "Thank you." "No, I'm fine, thanks." "I live across the street." "Right down." "Thank you." "Do you know how to cook Ramen ?" "Me?" "Of course not." "It much too difficult." "You have to training to do it." "I have your umbrella." "And I have less than 24hours now" "And I relly don't wanna go home." "Please, please call me back, okay ?" "I'll talk to you soon." "Bye." "Can I help you?" "You need a rest." "Your foot." "Here you go." "No, I don't wanna go." "I wanna stay here." "I wanna stay here." "No." "I wanna cook ramen." "I wanna cook ramen." "No, you teach." "Teacher." "Please, let me." "I wanna help." "I wanna help." "Be my teacher." "Teach me." "I wanna make people happy, the way you do." "I wanna make people laugh like you do." "Ethan's coming back." "If I leave" "Tomorrow 5:00 a.m." " Yes." "It's 1:00am." "¿Quién diablos es esa chica?" "Hi." "Good morning." "It's 5:00 a.m." "You told me to come by at 5:00." "So, what would you like me to do first ?" "Where should I start?" "What ?" "I'm sorry, what did you just say ?" "What ?" "Oh, sorry." "Finish." "I mean, I figured you want me to clean all the stuff, so" "I did." "I hope that's okay." "I mean, I didn't put them away, I didn't know where they went." "So" "Do you want me to chop?" "No" "I washed those already." "I washed those already." "It's washed." "I'm so sorry, I didn't see that." "I scrubbed, and I scrubebd it." "Let me do it." "Please." "I want to work, please." "It's okay." "I'll do it." "I'll do it." "Okay, can you just stop yelling at me?" "I'm, uh, flushing your toilet." "I thought you want me to clean your toilet." "No?" "What?" "No." "Over there ?" "What's over there?" "Jerk." "Sorry." "Good night." "Good night." "Gosh, what a hard day." "What?" "What?" "You want to clean those now?" "Of course you do." "I'm still here, doing all the work." "Would you please call me?" "Bye." "You are just drunk." "You're supposed to be teaching me." "That was our dal, remember?" "Ramen." "Ramen." "Me." "You teach me to cook ramen." "Screw this." "This is ridiculous." "Nobody, nobody without any self rspect would put up with you." "You fascist." "I'm outta here." "What?" "I'm sorry, how can I possibly forget that?" "Clean." "Clean the floors" "Clean the pots" "Clean the toilet, clean." "I don't understand what the hell you're saying." "And I'm sick of trying." "Goodbye." "Clean." "My dad told me I never stick to anything." "He's right." "I never manage to hold a job more than four months." "I came here because I want to be with my boyfriend and since he left" "I'm just hanging around waiting for him to come back." "I will clean for you." "I'll clean the windows the pots, whatever." "I don't know why I wanted to stay" "and the only thinkk that, uh, I could think of.." "the only reason was" "What ?" "You need it?" "Right." "The floors." "Am I fired ?" "Ethan is such a jerk." "Who could have told you that?" "But he didn't." "I must have left a hundred messages" "But I don't think he even listen to one of those." "What happened to you?" "I walked into a door." "So, what now?" "You going home to America, the Beautiful?" "América, bland and boring." "I rather die than go back there." "No, I'm staying." "Has that job at the law firm got any better?" "No, I'm not doing that anymore." "So, what are you doing?" "I'm training." "To become a a ramen chef." "Isn't that, that noodle stuff?" "Yes, ramen." "I have no ida." "Who cars." "Look at him, he's so gorgeous." "You are really studying ramen?" "I'm trying to, yeah." "That's awesome." "Dime, where did you learn to speak English?" "I lived in Los Angeles for one year when I was a college student." "So what do you do now?" "Our job is very exciting." "In America" "I think you call it 'pushing papers'." "These are my colleagues, Akira" "I am Akira." "And Kuma." "Call me Kuma." " I am Abby." " Abby." " Charlie." " Gretchen." "Toshi." "It'a pleasure to meet you all." "Which side do you think he plays on?" "It's hard to tell, he's Japenese." "So, Toshi, where to, next?" "Ramen." "Bye, Gretchen." " Bye." " Good night." " Nice to meet you." " Bye." "Do you guys have any cigarettes?" "Here you go." "Thanks, Charlie." "What time is it anyway?" "It's 5:00." "Thank you for taking us out tonight." "You are welcome." "See you again?" "I'll give you my card." "Thank you." "Toshi Iwamoto." "Thanks." "Good night." " Have a beautiful morning." " Nice meeting all of you." " Call me." " What's he doing?" "Witch!" "Call me." "She's priceless." "Let me try." "The spinach." "Here." "Pork" "This at 2:00." "What are you doing?" "Can you show me?" "Show me." "Please tell me what you mean." "What, are you crazy?" "I'm so freaking wasted I'm about to collapse." "You got any beer?" "Sure." "Thanks." "Drama, total drama." "You would not believe the stuff." "The creep who pays the rent for my apartment keeps bringing home his ex and keeps bringing his friends" "Asking me to do favors and stuff." "Once in a while, okay, I mean.." "but there's a limit." "Tonight, I get back from the bar, there he is with Godzilla and ask me to do him another favor" "I lost it." "If you think I'm terrible, you should see the apartment." "So do you think I could crash here?" "You?" "Hi." "Hi, Abby." "Hi." "What a coincidence." "Gretchen didn't tell me you are living here." "Gretchen is full of surprises tonight." "She's right in here." " Please, come in." " Thanks." "Where should I put the suitcases?" "Anywhere you want, doesn't matter." "Gretchen." "I really need to sleep, honey." "Toshi's here." "Great." "She's sleeping." "Yeah." "She looked really tired." "What happened?" "She asked me if I have a car." "And?" "Se oía muy molesta." "She sound really upset." "Tell me about it." "Well" "Probably I should go." "Sorry to bother you." "No." "Wait." "Do you want something to drink before you go?" "I mean you come all this way." "Personally, I could really use a beer." "Yeah, me too." "Okay." "That's the ramen shop where I work." "Easy commute." "Yes." "Your boss, he speaks English?" "Not a word." "Really?" "I can't understand a word he tells me not to mention he's psychotic." "He keeps trying to kill me." "Why do you stay?" "Maybe that's because" "I have no where else to go?" "That's just pathetic." "No." "I think you're on a path to something." "One day I'm sure I will taste Abby's ramen." "God, I hope so." "Yes." "So, what about you?" "What's your path?" "My path." "Typical Japanese." "Work in a big company get married have children grandchildren" "then die." "That's just grim." "But in college I learn music." "I had a band." "That's cool." "Most of the time we just got really drunk." "And we are talking about how we are going to make revolution to the Japanese music ground." "Then of course, we became salarymen." "It's what our parents wanted." "My parents would only be happy if I became a partner at a major law firm." "Strange." "Who'd to think we have the same problem?" "That's right." "Interesting." "Somewhere along the way" "I just forgot what I wanted to do with my life." "Sometimes when I wake up in the morning" "I can't breath." "That's probably why I started this habit." "Sorry, I smoke just the last one and I don't have any." "Wanna take a walk?" "It's monsoon." "I guess I should go home now." "Almost the morning." "Have you ever been to the ramen museum in Yokohama?" "There's a ramen museum in Yokohama?" "You kidding me." "I'm not kidding you." "Really?" " Yeah, really." " Okay, I have to see it." "Let's go there next weekend." "Yeah, okay." " Great." "I'll let Gretchen know." "I don't think she's intsrested." "Yeah, but it woud be awkward." "She's my friend." "I have to let her know." "You guys going out and all." "The first night you took a taxi home together." "No, no." "She just share thhe cab with me." "So it's okay I call you?" "Yeah." "It's okay, you call me." "I don't understand you." "Merry Christmas!" "Yankee, go home now." "I'm sorry, I thought the decoration would look nice." "I bought them at the market." "Look." "Look at the color" "The texture." "I think corn can be beautiful." "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas." "Hey Japan, I was fired tonight." "On Christmas Eve." "Heartless Japanese." "Cold blooded Japan." "I'll tell you one thing" "Nobody is running this side of town." "The longer I'm here" "I don't understand anything or anybody." "Like, my boss." "I used to think it was the language." "And now I just realise I don't get him at all." "It's a bowl of soup." "Tell him to get over it." "No, no." "There's something about the Japanese they make the perfect bowl of soup." "It's kind of beautiful." "It's like, with each bowl you try to get closer to perfection." "I think that's beautiful." " Ain't that beautiful?" " It's insane." "Listen to me." "The only you're going to survive in this country is to do what everybody else does" "Drink." "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas." "I'm so full." "When I was a kid" "I came here one time with my school." "The other kids always made fun of me because my grandparents came fom Korea." "I wanted to run away from those kids and sleep onto that ship." "I want to go away from Japan, somewhere." "Where?" "I don't know." "I just want to go away from Japan." "You are cold." "I should take you home." "No, I don't wanna go home." "I'd rather be here with you." "i don't understand you and sto hitting me." "i don't understand, i don't understand" "Who is that guy n the photos?" "You know, the one you cry over." "He's handsome." "Paris." "Don't hit me." "Where you going, tough guy?" "Tough guy?" "WHat?" "You dished it out but you can't take it?" "Yes, I gotcha!" "What?" "What's wrong?" "I don't understand." "You look so serious." "My boss wants me to go to Shanghai." "Oh, no." "I've heard this before." "How long?" "Three years." "Three years?" "How long have you known about this?" "Since a couple of days." "I have to go." "It's my obligation." "My God." "You did it again." "I don't want to leave you." "Then tell them to send somebody else." "That's realted to our work in Japan." "If the company wants you to go, you have to go." "Then how can you spend three more years in a job that you can't stand?" "How?" "Why why don't you just tell them to go to hell and do something algo que realmente te guste, algo para ti mismo?" "something that you really love, something for yourself?" "And don't say it's because you're Japanese because that's just not an excuse." "I am Japanese." "Why do Americans think that everybody should be like them?" "I've said everything that I have to say really." " Abby." " What?" "Would you please come with me?" "Where?" "Shanghai?" "Yes." "We could be together." "Please, don't do this to me." "Please, Abby." "Please come with me." "Please, will you taste my broth?" "Please, Sensei." "What are you doing?" "I did everything I saw you do." "Everything." "I'll miss you." "I'll miss you too." "Are you sure you won't come with me to the airport?" "No, no." "That'd be too sad." "Can you just tell me again just one more time you really, really want me to go with you?" "Go." "I could miss your flight." "Sensei, quick." "Sensei, please help me." "I keep trying and I never get it." "Please." "Teach me how to have" "But how?" "I don't know anything about love." "Everytime I feel it it's gone" "it disappears." "And all I have left is pain" "and sadness." "Ijust needed to create something for myself." "Myself." "Myself." "Successor." "You .." "My successor." "I'd be honored." "Where's sensei ?" "I can't leave without saying goodbye to sensei." "4 Tokyo, 1 Goddess and 1 Maezumi special." "In a minute." "Abby, there's a guy, he says he knows you." "Who is he?" "From where?" "I don't know." "I hated my job, so I did what you would do." "I quit." "I started to write music again." "Welcome to my Ramen Shop."