Oishinbo: The Japan-America Rice War
MovieTitle | 美味しんぼ 日米コメ戦争 |
User score | 1 |
Release date | Dec 3, 1993 |
Genre | Animation |
Director | Yoshio Takeuchi |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Shin-Ei Animation |
Run time | 90 min. |
The Oishinbo gang takes time off from the normal culinary wars to get involved with a political dispute about American rice imports. The economic conflict between a pushy US Senator from California and a nationalistic Japanese politician is further complicated by concerns about the cumulative effect of pesticide use in both American and Japanese agriculture.