Tampopo
Tampopo

Tampopo (1985)

PG-1311/23/1985Comedy1h 55m
78%
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"The first Japanese Noodle Western."

Overview

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.

Jūzō Itami

Director

Jūzō Itami

Producer

Kunihiko Murai

Composer