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The first Japanese Noodle Western.
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.Read moreLess
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 story
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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Tsutomu YamazakiGoro
Nobuko MiyamotoTampopo
Ken WatanabeGun
Koji YakushoWhite Suit Man
Rikiya YasuokaPisken
Kinzō SakuraShohei
Hyōe EnokiPisken's Henchman
Gō AwazuPisken's Henchman
Izumi HaraOld Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese
Isao HashizumeWaiter
Hisashi IgawaRunning ManExplore the crew
- Producer
- Yasushi Tamaoki
- Producer
- Jūzō Itami
- Screenplay
- Jūzō Itami
- Director of Photography
- Masaki Tamura
- Editor
- Akira Suzuki
- Producer
- Seigo Hosogoe
- Director
- Jūzō Itami
- Original Music Composer
- Kunihiko Murai