Tampopo

タンポポ

1985·115'

Jūzō Itami

Comedy

Japanese

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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

Mario Abe Restaurant Owner Izumi Hara Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese Isao Hashizume Waiter Hisashi Igawa Running Man