Tampopo
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
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.
- Year: 1985
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: New Century Producers, Itami Productions
- Keyword: widow, restaurant, business woman, food, truck driver, hoodlum, foodie, ramen, gastronomia
- Director: Jūzō Itami
- Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka, Kinzō Sakura