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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 23, 1985
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- New Century Producers,Itami Productions
- Cast
- Tsutomu Yamazaki,Nobuko Miyamoto,Ken Watanabe,Koji Yakusho,Rikiya Yasuoka,Kinzō Sakura,Hyōe Enoki,Gō Awazu,Mario Abe,Izumi Haraand 22 more
- Director
- Jūzō Itami
- Writer
- Jūzō Itami
- Producer
- Seigo Hosogoe,Yasushi Tamaoki,Jūzō Itami
- Cinematography
- Masaki Tamura
- Music
- Kunihiko Murai
- Budget
- $1,500,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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