Tampopo
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
19851h 55mNo ratings yet
- Comedy
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.
Keywords
- bullying
- food
- ridiculous
- widow
- restaurant
- sensei
- hoodlum
- joyous
- truck driver
- restaurant owner
- gastronomia
- business woman
- whimsical
- helping people
- ramen
- foodie
- japanese restaurant
- erotic vignettes
- food culture
- eastern philosophy
- stealing recipes
- ramen noodles
- small town cook
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 23, 1985
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Budget
- $1,500,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0092048