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Tampopo

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Tampopo
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NR,1hr 54min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1986
Director:
Juzo Itami
Distributor:
Fox Lorber
Starring:
Ken Watanabe, Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki  ...more
Synopsis: The sophomore directorial effort from ill-fated Japanese filmmaker Juzo Itami, Tampopo is an off-beat comedy featuring several intersecting stories all related to food. Tsutomu Yamazaki plays Goro, a truck driver who helps a young widow named Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) improve her noodle restaurant. Over the course of the film, the story drifts around, not only following the stories of Tampopo, her son, and Goro, but also a number of customers who come through the diner, including an old woman (Izumi ... Full Synopsis
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Jonathan Crow, AMG Review
A gleeful thumb in the eye of Japan's money-mad 1980s culture, Juzo Itami's masterpiece subverts all that is right and proper with food and sex. Dubbed the first "noodle western," the film concerns a craggy-faced Shane-like stranger (he drives a semi instead of a horse) who aids a young widow named Tampopo as she struggles to make the best bowl of ramen noodles in town. On one level, the film works ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Ken Watanabe
Gun
Nobuko Miyamoto
Tampopo
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Goro
Koji Yakusho
Man in White Suit
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