Tampopo
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
19851h 55m
- Comedy
TMDB rating 7.8TMDB465 votes
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.
- Directed by
- Jūzō Itami
- Written by
- Jūzō Itami
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Cast
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Goro
Nobuko Miyamoto
Tampopo
Ken Watanabe
Gun
Koji Yakusho
White Suit Man
Rikiya Yasuoka
Pisken
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Facts
- Status
- Released
- Original title
- タンポポ
- Original language
- Japanese
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Production companies
- New Century Producers, Itami Productions
