Tampopo (1985)

Original title

タンポポ

Directed by

Jūzō Itami

Genre

comedy film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 438 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of truck drivers help a struggling ramen shop owner improve her soup and noodles. The film mixes her story with short comedic scenes about food and eating.

playfulquirkylightheartedfood-centeredfarcicalwarmcomedicoddball

What happens

Tampopo (タンポポ, Tanpopo; literally "dandelion") is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first "ramen Western", a play on the term spaghetti Western. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985)
• Tora-san's Island Encounter (1985)
• The Actress and The Poet (1935)
• The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985)
• Broken Down Film (1985)
• Tora-san, the Go-Between (1985)
• Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986)
• Nuclear Gypsies (1985)