Tampopo

1985 115 min Comedy

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.

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IMDb 7.9 RT 100 Metacritic 87

budget $1,500,000

director Jūzō Itami

writer Jūzō Itami

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