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Tampopo

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

7.787 average rating
7.787
Japanese / 115 MIN. / 1985

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Tsutomu YamazakiNobuko MiyamotoKen WatanabeKoji YakushoRikiya YasuokaKinzō SakuraHyōe EnokiGō AwazuMario AbeIzumi HaraIsao HashizumeHisashi IgawaToshimune KatoKenso KatoYoshi KatōYoshihiro KatōToshiya FujitaFukumi KurodaNobuo NakamuraMariko OkadaYoshihei SagaSetsuko ShinoiHitoshi TakagiChōei TakahashiEi TakamiAkio TanakaMasahiko TsugawaHideji ŌtakiNaritoshi HayashiYoriko DoguchiRyutaro OtomoGilyak Amagasaki

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