Tampopo

Original title: タンポポ

"The first Japanese Noodle Western."

1985 ★ 7.8 115 min NR IMDb Japanese Jūzō Itami

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Overview

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.

Comedy