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Tampopo
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
1985·1h 55m·★ 7.8
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.
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Tsutomu Yamazaki
Goro
Nobuko Miyamoto
Tampopo
Ken Watanabe
Gun
Koji Yakusho
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Rikiya Yasuoka
Pisken
Kinzō Sakura
Shohei
Hyōe Enoki
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