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Tampopo

Tampopo

7.8/ 10

TMDB Rating

422

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1985

Release Year

115 min

Runtime

Comedy

Overview

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.

Keywords

widow
restaurant
business woman
restaurant owner
bullying
sensei
food
truck driver
erotic vignettes
hoodlum
foodie
stealing recipes
eastern philosophy
ramen
food culture
small town cook
gastronomia
joyous
helping people
whimsical
ridiculous
japanese restaurant
ramen noodles

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7.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

July 17, 2023

7
7/10

Nobuko Miyamoto is the eponymous lady who runs her small noodle bar always with the same regulars and... well it's all just a bit routine. That is until "Gorô" (Tsutomu Yamazaki) and his young sidekick "Gun" (Ken Watanabe) arrive and decide they are going to help her realise her dream to improve her

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