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Tampopo (1985)
Directed by Jūzō Itami
“The first Japanese Noodle Western.”
Comedy · 1h 55m
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
M
Mario Abe
Restaurant Owner
Izumi Hara
Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese
Isao Hashizume
Waiter
Hisashi Igawa
Running Man
Crew
- Director
- Jūzō Itami
- Screenplay
- Jūzō Itami
- Director of Photography
- Masaki Tamura
- Original Music Composer
- Kunihiko Murai
- Editor
- Akira Suzuki
- Producer
- Yasushi Tamaoki, Jūzō Itami, Seigo Hosogoe
Details
- Original title
- タンポポ
- Release date
- 1985-11-23
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- New Century Producers, Itami Productions
- Budget
- $1,500,000