Umami - A Taste of Happiness

Gabriel Carvin is considered the best chef in all of France. Carvin has been on the verge of passing away, an event that sets the course for his future and his ambitions. The cook has only been beaten once, many years ago, for a bowl of the quintessential Japanese soup known as Ramen. After his encounter with death, Gabriel decides to leave everything he knows behind and go to Japan, there to decipher the only dish that has managed to unseat exquisite French food and its prestige.

This film, half Japanese and half French, is directed and written by the French Slony Sow, who adds with this film his second feature film after 'Parisiennes', released in theaters in 2015.

'The taste of simple things' (originally titled 'Unami ') is an overcoming drama starring the well-known French actor Gérard Depardieu ('The Man in the Iron Mask'), his fictional wife, Louise Carvin, is played by Sandrine Bonnaire ('The Beaches of Agnés' ), while his two children, Nino and Jean Carvin, are played by Rod Paradot ('Head High') and ('The Library of Rejected Books'). Other actors such as Pierre Richard, Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Eriko Takeda, Akira Emoto, Zinedine Soualem or the director Sow himself participate throughout the 107-minute duration of the film.

• Drama