A Glean movie pick

Tampopo

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

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

1985
1h 55m
Comedy
★ 7.8

Directed by Jūzō Itami

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The story

About Tampopo

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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