Tampopo
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
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Taste threads
What this title is working with
- Offbeat
- Behind the scenes
- Food at the center
- Satire
- Redemption
- Mentor and student
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- Release
- 1985
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Director
- Jūzō Itami
Synopsis
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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