Tampopo
Directed by:
Jūzō ItamiScreenplay:
Jūzō ItamiCinematography:
Masaki TamuraComposer:
Kunihiko MuraiCast:
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Kōji Yakusho, Ryutaro Otomo, Hisashi Igawa, Mariko Okada, 橋爪功, 津川雅彦, Chôei Takahashi, 洞口依子, 大滝秀治, 加藤嘉, 原泉, 池内万平, 高木均 (more)VOD (2)
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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 lady terrorizing a shopkeeper by compulsive squeezing of his wares. (Criterion)
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As I generally quite like Japanese movies, this comedy about ramen (Japanese food, not a body part), which is definitely more multi-genre than it may seem at first glance, didn't grab me as I thought it would. It has good scenes, even from a dramatic perspective, but it felt more stretched out and not as funny as I expected.
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