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TAMPOPO

By Jûzô ITAMI

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Comedy - Completed 1985

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.

- Year of production
- 1985
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 115 mn
- Director(s)
- Jûzô ITAMI
- ISAN
- 0000-0000-64B0-0000-W-0000-0000-F
- EIDR
- 10.5240/1941-7022-FEEE-C378-B9D2-D
- Synopsis
- 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.