Come Back Anytime (film screening)

Come Back Anytime
また いらっしゃい

Thursday, April 4, 6:00PM (ET)

Doors open 5:30PM | Film Screening | In-Person | JFT Event Hall

Directed by John Daschbach • 2021 • Documentary • 81 minutes • Presented in Japanese with English subtitles • Trailer

Join us to celebrate National Ramen Day with our screening of Come Back Anytime! This is the first film in our food-themed series, Cinema Umami. Stay tuned for further announcements.

Self-taught ramen master UEDA Masamoto and his wife Kazuko have run their Tokyo ramen shop, Bizentei for more than forty years. Together with their customers, they have created a welcoming place of community. On the weekends, they venture together across the Japanese countryside, harvesting pears, bamboo shoots, and wild mountain yams.

An intimate portrait of Japan’s culture of food, community, and work, Come Back Anytime features gorgeous scenery, mouth-watering dishes, and a delightful cast of regular customers. It’s a heartwarming reminder of life’s simplest pleasures: a delicious meal, relaxed conversations with friends, and a special place to call one’s own. 

Free admission. Register below.

Director Profile:

John Daschbach is a Tokyo-based American filmmaker who fell in love with film at the Dartmouth College Film Society while growing up in Hanover, New Hampshire. After studying literature in college, he dove into film editing while studying with legendary editor, Ralph Rosenblum at Columbia University. After embracing the digital revolution of the late 90s, he’s been making independent films, and editing others’, ever since. Come Back Anytime is his second feature, first documentary, and first cinematography credit.