
Forty-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
Forty-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.
Leave your thoughts about White on Rice.
| Sly FoxKam WilliamsA hilarious slice-of-life flick offering a unique take on Japanese-American culture adding up to one of the funniest films of the year thus far. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter V. AddiegoA cockeyed tale about a Japanese nebbish in suburban America, White on Rice will wring some laughs out of anyone but the most humor-impaired. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoWill wring some laughs out of anyone but the most humor-impaired. |
| Boxoffice MagazineSara SchieronIts tone is pleasant and its humor, charming. |
| L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonAt its best, this uneven film by writer-director Dave Boyle suggests that going a bit nuts is a good thing for the rigid paterfamilias. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyIts amusingly off-kilter humor underserved by pedestrian packaging, Dave Boyle's sophomore feature, White on Rice, is the kind of comedy that hinges on a protagonist near-imbecilic in all matters social, physical and especially romantic. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid Noh...what we mostly get here, unfortunately, is...akin to an Asian minstrel show. |
| Slant MagazineFernando F. CroceIf nothing else, White on Rice proves that Napoleon Dynamite's gawk-at-the-spaz routine doesn't sound any more endearing in garbled Engrish. |
| Time OutAaron HillisGranted, Boyle may be a competent director, but he’s missed the mark by not focusing on anybody with real heart: the father and his son, the cousin and her beau--basically, every person here who isn’t a cretinous, developmentally arrested creep. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasIt's revealing that writer-director Dave Boyle has said that in a way he fulfilled his lifelong ambition to be a cartoonist with the live-action White on Rice because his people in this wan, trite and increasingly silly comedy are little more than stick figures. |