Tampopo

Name: Tampopo
Director: Jūzō Itami
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1985-11-23
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 7.789
Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka

Directed by Jūzō Itami

Comedy

19851h 55m7.8

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.