The first Japanese Noodle Western.

Tampopo

Name: Tampopo
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1985-11-23
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka

movie19851h 55m★ 7.8Released

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.

Budget$1.5M

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