Tampopo

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

• Rated 7.8 out of 10
• Movie
• 1985
• 1h 55m
• Comedy

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.

Director

Jūzō Itami

Starring

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho