Tampopo

1985 - 115 min

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

Ratings

7.9/10
100%
87/100
7.8

Comedy

Director:
Jûzô Itami
Actors:
Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto
Plot:
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.

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