Comedy

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.

"The first Japanese Noodle Western."

Credits

Tsutomu YamazakiGoro

Nobuko MiyamotoTampopo

Ken WatanabeGun

Koji YakushoWhite Suit Man

Rikiya YasuokaPisken