Tsutomu Yamazaki
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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.
- (23K)
- Comedy
- Jûzô Itami
- 1987-09
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. The publicity for the film calls it the first "ramen Western", a play on the term spaghetti Western.
Koji Yakusho is an acclaimed and famed Japanese actor who has appeared in many notable films, including Tampopo, Unagi and Babel, but may be best known internationally for his role in Shall We Dance, which at the time of its release was Asia's biggest film export.
- January 1, 1
- 1.79 m
- Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
He played a major character in Juzo Itami's 1986 Tampopo. [ 1 ] In 1988, he was given a special award for work in cinema by the Japanese Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture and continued to appear in films and in a number of TV shows through the '90s.
May 18, 2010 · Fun, astute, entertaining and informative, Tampopo achieves a type of magic that happens all too rarely in the cinema: the audience walks out all smiles, abuzz with comments and stories, and feeling both energized and optimistic, if for no other reason than they now have a clear idea of what they'd like for dinner!
- (936)
- Import, Multiple Formats, NTSC
- DVD
- Comedy
www.latimes.com · entertainment · moviesReview: To slurp with love: ‘Tampopo’ makes a welcome return
Oct 27, 2016 · A gangster in a white suit (Koji Yakusho) takes his seat in the front row of a movie theater and addresses us through the screen, warning us not to even think about crunching potato chips and...
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Koji Yakusho is an acclaimed and famed Japanese actor who has appeared in many notable films, including Tampopo, Unagi and Babel, but may be best known internationally for his role in Shall We Dance, which at the time of its release was Asia's biggest film export.
