The Ramen Girl is a 2008 American–Japanese comedy–drama film starring Brittany Murphy about a girl who goes to Japan and decides to learn how to cook ramen. Murphy is also listed in the production credits as one of the producers.
Abby (Brittany Murphy) is an American girl who goes to Tokyo to be with her boyfriend, Ethan (Gabriel Mann). Ethan tells her that he has to go to Osaka on a business trip and may not be back for a while. Abby asks to go with him but Ethan refuses and breaks up with her. Abby goes to a ramen shop afterward, and the chef Maezumi (Toshiyuki Nishida) and his wife Reiko (Kimiko Yo) tell her that they are closed. Abby does not understand them as she does not speak Japanese. She starts to cry, so the chef conveys to her to sit down. He brings her a bowl of ramen, and she loves it. A small distance away, she hallucinates that the lucky cat, known as the Maneki Neko, or Beckoning Cat, gestures to her to come over. She offers to pay for her meal, but the chef and his wife refuse.
You know I have this feeling you're not like the other
ones, don't ask me why...I want to take you in my arms
and hold you till it passes, as you cry...
Don't really know what's good for you but all that I can
do is truly try...
But at the end of promises and moments, there is always
goodbye...
There is always goodbye...
And every night I dream of you, I hold your hand in
mine...
An underlying need to fill the emptiness inside...
And if you were here with me now, I'd stop the hands of
time...
This night would last forever and, we'd never say
goodbye...
Goodbye...
Enough of solitude tonight,
This time is ours and
The light, has burned away from the skies...
From the skies...
We are not who we used to be,
This time is ours, we are free...
But I see goodbye, in your eyes...
Goodbye, in your eyes...