Flavors of Youth
2018 animated film
Flavors of Youth (Japanese: 詩季織々, romanized: shikioriori, lit. "From Season to Season"; Chinese: 肆式青春; pinyin: sì shì qīng chūn, Cantonese Jyutping: sei³ sik¹ cing¹ ceon¹, Shanghainese Wugniu: sy⁵ seq⁷ chin¹ tshen¹, lit. "Necessities of Life in Youth") is a 2018 anime/donghua anthology drama film directed by Li Haoling, Jiaoshou Yi Xiaoxing and Yoshitaka Takeuchi and produced by Noritaka Kawaguchi. A Japanese-Chinese co-production between CoMix Wave Films and Haoliners Animation League, it was released in Japan and in China on August 4, 2018, and globally on the same day by StudioCanal and Netflix.
Plot
The film is based on the tradition of "four basic necessities of life", like each other and is divided into three storylines:
The Rice Noodles (Japanese: 陽だまりの朝食, romanized: hidamari no chōshoku, simplified Chinese: 一碗乡愁; traditional Chinese: 一碗鄉愁; pinyin: yì wǎn xiāng chóu), focusing on food
A Little Fashion Show (Japanese: 小さなファッションショー, romanized: chīsana fasshonshō, Chinese: 霓裳浮光; pinyin: ní cháng fú guāng, Jyutping: ngai⁴ soeng⁴ fau⁴ gwong¹), focusing on clothing
Love in Shanghai (Japanese: 上海恋, romanized: shanhai koi, simplified Chinese: 纤雨初晴; traditional Chinese: 纖雨初晴; pinyin: xiān yǔ chū qíng, Wugniu: shi¹ yu⁶ tshu¹ zhin⁶), focusing on housing and transportation
The Rice Noodles
Taking place in Hunan Province and Beijing, Xiao Ming reminisces about his memories with his grandmother through his love for San Xian noodles. When Xiao Ming was young, he and his grandmother ate San Xian noodles from a local noodle shop that to him showed care and effort for their food. However, the shop closed down with speculation that the owners were pushed out due to jealousy or a client wanted them back in Beijing. Xiao Ming then went to another noodle shop in his town, and although the shop buys pre-made San Xian noodles, the noodle soup had many toppings much to Xiao Ming's satisfaction. Later, the husband of the owner of that noodle shop wanted the noodle shop to become a fishing shop. However, after bad business and the couple's son getting hospitalized in a knife fight with some students at his school, the noodle shop reopened with the husband and son of the owner working as well.
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