Tampopo

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

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.

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 1985-11-23
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Country: Japan
  • Language: Japanese
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 7.861
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