Tampopo

Tampopo (1985)

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

TMDb 7.811/23/19851h 55m
Comedy
IMDb

Original Title

タンポポ

Status

Released

Production Companies

New Century ProducersItami Productions

Original Language

JA

Budget

$1,500,000

Revenue

-

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

Production Countries

Japan

Spoken Languages

Japanese

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