Review: Tampopo (1985)
Director: Jūzō Itami
Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka,
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Nobuko Miyamoto
Ken Watanabe
Koji Yakusho
Rikiya Yasuoka
Plot: 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.