Tampopo

• 7.8 Comedy
• 1985-11-23
• 115 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Tsutomu Yamazaki (黑郎) Nobuko Miyamoto (蒲公英) Ken Watanabe (枪) Koji Yakusho (穿白衣服的男人) Rikiya Yasuoka (Pisken) Kinzō Sakura (Shohei) Hyōe Enoki (Pisken's Henchman) Gō Awazu (Pisken's Henchman) Mario Abe (Restaurant Owner) Izumi Hara (Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese)

Director:

Jūzō Itami

Writer:

Jūzō Itami