Tampopo(1985)

About the film

“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.

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe

Production: New Century Producers, Itami Productions