Tampopo (1985)
Tampopo (1985)
Tanpopo
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 minutes
Released: 25 November 1987 (France)
User rating: 7,9 on 9.449
Directed by:
Jûzô Itami
Written by:
Jûzô Itami
With:
Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto
Plot:
A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.
Plot:
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro, who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect noodle soup restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food, to an old woman who terrorizes a shopkeeper by compulsively squeezing his wares.