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Tampopo (1985) 7.6
A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food. Director:Jûzô ItamiWriter:Jûzô Itami |
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Cast
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Tsutomu Yamazaki | ... |
Goro
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Nobuko Miyamoto | ... |
Tampopo
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Gun
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Man in White Suit
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Rikiya Yasuoka | ... |
Pisuken
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Mario Abe | ... |
Resutoran no shachô
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Sen Hara | ... |
Old woman, pressing Camembert cheese
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Isao Hashizume | ... |
Waiter
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Hisashi Igawa | ... |
Running man
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Toshimune Kato | ... |
Young Employee
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Kensô Katô | ... |
Hira
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Yoshi Katô | ... |
Noodle-making master
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Fukumi Kuroda | ... |
Man in White Suit's Mistress
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Nobuo Nakamura | ... |
Old gentleman
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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 fast-food noodle 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. Written by Reid Gagle
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Country:
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September 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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When Pisuken drives over to challenge Goro to a fight, he pulls up in a Chevrolet Camaro. Since Japanese cars have the steering wheel on the right, an American car with a wheel on the left is a sign of wealth and status, since it means you had to import the car yourself. See more »Quotes
Man in White Suit: I'll kill you if you make that noise once the movie starts! Understand? And... I also don't like watch alarms going off.See more »
I first saw this film on TV around 1990 and loved it. Its one of those films that you put on your mental list of films to see again. My girlfriend managed to buy an Japanese import subtitled version for Xmas and we sat down to watch. Tampopo is a film that starts interesting and slowly draws you in until you realise you sat for an hour and a half mesmerised. Its one of those films that when the lights go up you're not sure what you just watched but somehow it all made sense and you know it was very special. This is a film for life. I won't watch it every week but everyone I loaned it to came back with the same comments as myself. There are moments of sheer beauty that make your eyes fill up with joy. Several times I had to hold back a sniff, Damn I wanna cook noodles now. If Tampopo doesn't capture your heart then maybe you miss the point of film making as an art.