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– A pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop selling ramen noodles. The wi..
A pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, pleads them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle soup making".
01 Sep 1987
Japanese
Jûzô Itami
Jûzô Itami (screenplay)
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kôji Yakusho, Ken Watanabe
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro, who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect noodle soup restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food, to an old woman who terrorizes a shopkeeper by compulsively squeezing his wares.
6 wins & 4 nominations.
$224,097
Itami Productions