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)Plots(1)
The sophomore directorial effort from ill-fated Japanese filmmaker Juzo Itami, Tampopo is an off-beat comedy featuring several intersecting stories all related to food. Tsutomu Yamazaki plays Goro, a truck driver who helps a young widow named Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) improve her noodle restaurant. Over the course of the film, the story drifts around, not only following the stories of Tampopo, her son, and Goro, but also a number of customers who come through the diner, including an old woman (Izumi Hara) who insists on squeezing the cheese at a market and a criminal (Ken Watanabe) with a food-based kink. Tampopo was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1988 Independent Spirit Awards. (official distributor synopsis)
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While I usually enjoy Japanese films, this comedy about ramen, which is definitely more multi-genre than it might seem at first glance, didn't quite captivate me as much as I thought it would. It has good scenes, even from a dramatic standpoint, but overall, it felt a bit drawn out and not as fun as I expected.
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