Tampopo
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
Film19851h 55mReleased
Comedy
Not rated
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- Director
- Jūzō Itami
- Language
- Japanese
- Released
- 1985-11-23
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
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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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