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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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.

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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)

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