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Tampopo

  • November 1985
  • 1hr

    55mins

  • Comedy
  • Directed by

    Jūzō Itami,

    Starring

    Tsutomu Yamazaki,

    Nobuko Miyamoto,

    Ken Watanabe,

    Koji Yakusho

    ...

    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.