Tampopo

Nov 23, 1985

1h 55m

★ 7.9

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

New Century Producers

Itami Productions

Tampopo Trailers

Cast

Goro

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Tampopo

Nobuko Miyamoto

Gun

Ken Watanabe

White Suit Man

Koji Yakusho

Pisken

Rikiya Yasuoka

Shohei

Kinzō Sakura

Pisken's Henchman

Hyōe Enoki

Pisken's Henchman

Gō Awazu

Restaurant Owner

Mario Abe

Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese

Izumi Hara

Waiter

Isao Hashizume

Running Man

Hisashi Igawa

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