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Tampopo
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.
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432 votes
“The first Japanese Noodle Western.”
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TAMPOPO | 4K Restoration 2016
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- Nov 23, 1985
- 1h 55m
- Japanese
- Jūzō Itami
- Jūzō Itami
- Released
- $1.5M
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New Century Producers
