by Juzo Itami
115 minute runtime
Watched | August 17, 2024 by 👫 |
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Genres | Comedy |
Released | November 23, 1985 |
Links | TMDB (7.9), IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes |
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
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.