Name: Tampopo
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1985-11-23
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

Tampopo

TMDB 7.8ČSFD 78%19851h 55mReleased

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
Released: Nov 23, 1985