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Tampopo (タンポポ, Tanpopo, literally "dandelion") is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe.
Two Japanese milk-truck drivers (Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe) help a restaurant owner (Nobuko Miyamoto) learn how to cook great noodles.
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Tampopo: Directed by Jûzô Itami. With Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho, Ken Watanabe. A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.
Nov 3, 2021 · Two Japanese milk-truck drivers (Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken Watanabe) help a restaurant owner (Nobuko Miyamoto) learn how to cook great noodles. ...more.
When it comes to capturing the sensory pleasures of food on film, it’s hard to beat Juzo Itami’s mouthwatering 1985 “ramen western” Tampopo. A mix of wicked humor and surreal eroticism, this culinary odyssey follows a widowed noodle-shop owne…
"Tampopo" is one of those utterly original movies that seems to exist in no known category. Like the French comedies of Jacques Tati, it's a bemused meditation on human nature in which one humorous situation flows into another offhandedly, as if life were a series of smiles.
Dec 31, 2014 · The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges—our ...
Hungry for a large bowl of hot, scrumptious pork ramen, seasoned truck drivers Goro and Gun chance upon the Lai Lai: a ramshackle roadside noodle shop run by sweet widow Tampopo. Instead, a lukewarm first impression awaits the two truckers on a chilly night pouring with rain.
Currently you are able to watch "Tampopo" streaming on Max, Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel. It is also possible to buy "Tampopo" on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home as download or rent it on Fandango At Home, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube online.
The first Japanese Noodle Western. 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".
