Film

Tampopo

1985 · 1h 55m · Comedy

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

IMDb

7.9

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Metacritic

87

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.

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Goro

Nobuko Miyamoto

Tampopo

Ken Watanabe

Gun

Koji Yakusho

White Suit Man

Rikiya Yasuoka

Pisken

Kinzō Sakura

Shohei

Hyōe Enoki

Pisken's Henchman

Gō Awazu

Pisken's Henchman

Mario Abe

Restaurant Owner

Izumi Hara

Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese

Isao Hashizume

Waiter

Hisashi Igawa

Running Man

Toshimune Kato

Young Employee

Kenso Kato

Hira

Yoshi Katō

Noodle-making Master

Yoshihiro Kato

Man in White Suit's Henchman

• Jūzō ItamiScreenplay · Director · Producer
• Seigo HosogoeProducer
• Yasushi TamaokiProducer
• Masaki TamuraDirector of Photography
• Kunihiko MuraiOriginal Music Composer
• Akira SuzukiEditor
• Shigeru SakuradaCasting
• Kosaburo SasaokaCasting

TAMPOPO | 4K Restoration 2016

Release date

November 23, 1985

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

NR

Budget

$1,500,000

Genres

Comedy

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