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Tampopo

1985 · dir. Jūzō Itami · 115 min

“The first Japanese Noodle Western.”

Club average 9.5/10 · 2 ratings · watched by 2

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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Cast · Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka

Language · ja

Budget · $1,500,000