Tampopo
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
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11/23/1985Runtime
115 minsGenres
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
JapaneseBudget
$1,500,000Revenue
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A fever dream of a film that treats ramen-making as a spiritual quest, punctuated by bizarre and erotic tangents that celebrate food as the meaning of life itself. It's less interested in coherence than in the sheer pleasure of its own eccentricity.
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