1985 · 115 min · 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.
Directed by Jūzō Itami. Starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho and Rikiya Yasuoka.
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