Tampopo

Original title: タンポポ

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

1985 · 1 h 55 · Japan · Japanese

• Comedy

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.