TAMPOPO [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Tampopo is a celebration of the role of food in Japanese culture. Acclaimed director Juzo Itami's (The Funeral, A Taxing Woman) hit satire was dubbed the first 'noodle western' for its delightful parody of American Westerns and Japanese samurai films. Tampopo follows a young widow (Nobuko Miyamoto) who runs a small noodle restaurant in Tokyo and Goro (Tsutomo Yamazaki), a cowboy hat wearing truck driver, as they attempt to devise the perfect bowl of top ramen.
• Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Kôji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka, Mario Abe, Izumi Hara, Isao Hashizume, Hisashi Igawa, Kensô Katô, Toshimune Kato, Yoshi Kato, Fukumi Kuroda, Nobuo Nakamura, Mariko Okada, Hideji Otaki, Ryutaro Otomo, Yoshihei Saga, Kinzoh Sakura, Setsuko Shinoi, Hitoshi Takagi, Choei Takahashi, Ei Takami, Akio Tanaka, Yoriko Douguchi, Narutoshi Hayashi, Juzo Itami
• Director: Juzo Itami
• Runtime: 1:54
• Company: Fox Lorber Films, Itami Productions
• Media Format: Movie