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Tampopo

Original title: タンポポ

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

1985 · NR · 1h 55m

Directed by Jūzō Itami

7.8

TMDB audience score
469 votes, out of 10

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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.

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Cast

  • Tsutomu Yamazaki
    Goro

  • Nobuko Miyamoto
    Tampopo

  • Ken Watanabe
    Gun

  • Koji Yakusho
    White Suit Man

  • Rikiya Yasuoka
    Pisken

  • Kinzō Sakura
    Shohei

  • Hyōe Enoki
    Pisken's Henchman

  • Gō Awazu
    Pisken's Henchman

  • Mario Abe
    Restaurant Owner

  • Izumi Hara
    Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese

  • Isao Hashizume
    Waiter

  • Hisashi Igawa
    Running Man

  • Toshimune Kato
    Young Employee

  • Kenso Kato
    Hira

  • Yoshi Katō
    Noodle-making Master

  • Yoshihiro Kato
    Man in White Suit's Henchman

  • Toshiya Fujita
    Man with Toothache

  • Fukumi Kuroda
    Man in White Suit's Mistress