Tampopo

Tampopo

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Comedy

Tampopo

タンポポDIRECTED BYJūzō Itami115mins1985

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

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.

Other films by Jūzō Itami

The Funeral
A Taxing Woman
Supermarket Woman
Woman in Witness Protection

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