Tampopo (1985)

7.8/10 115 min Comedy

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.

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

Izumi Hara

Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese

Isao Hashizume

Waiter

Hisashi Igawa

Running Man

Yoshi Katō

Noodle-making Master

Yoshihiro Katō

Man in White Suit's Henchman

Toshiya Fujita

Man with Toothache

Fukumi Kuroda

Man in White Suit's Mistress

Nobuo Nakamura

Old Gentleman

Mariko Okada

Spaghetti Teacher

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