Tampopo
"The first Japanese Noodle Western."
181985
3.9
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.
Not available to watch online
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
Not available to watch online
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