Tampopo

Tampopo (1985)

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

TMDb

7.9

23/11/1985 • 1h 55m
original-title

タンポポ

status

Released

production-companies

New Century Producers

Itami Productions

original-language

Japanese

budget

$1,500,000

revenue

-

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.

director
production-countries

Japan

spoken-languages

Japanese

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