
Tampopo
"The first Japanese Noodle Western."
181985
4
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
181985
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
- director
- Jūzō Itami
- cast
- Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho
- genres
- runtime
- 1 hr 55 mins
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