Tampopo
1985 · ★ 7.9 · Dir. Jūzō Itami
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
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 vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
- Released
- 1985-11-23
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- NR
- Language
- JA
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Top billed cast
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Tsutomu Yamazaki
Goro
Nobuko Miyamoto
Tampopo
Ken Watanabe
Gun
Koji Yakusho
Man in White Suit
Rikiya Yasuoka
Pisken
Gō Awazu
Hyōe Enoki
Pisken's Henchman
Mario Abe
Resutoran no shachô
Izumi Hara
Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese
Isao Hashizume
Waiter
Hisashi Igawa
Running Man
Toshimune Kato
Young Employee
