Released
Tampopo
November 23 1985 (about 39 years ago)Rating
79
Based on
352 reviews
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
- Director: Jūzō Itami
- Writer: Jūzō Itami
- Genre: Comedy
- Runtime: 1 h 55 m
- Budget: $1,500,000
- Country: Japan
- Companies: New Century Producers, Itami Productions
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.
