Tampopo

Tampopo

4.0 |
1h 55min

Released

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.
Tampopo

Story

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.

Directors

Jūzō Itami, Jūzō Itami, Jūzō Itami, Masatsugu Takase, Shigeru Sakurada, Kazuki Shirayama,

Writers

Tags

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

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