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Tampopo

Release Date:May 22, 1987

Running Time:115 min

Genres:Comedy

Director

Cast

Tsutomu Yamazaki Nobuko Miyamoto Ken Watanabe Koji Yakusho Rikiya Yasuoka Kinzō Sakura Hyōe Enoki Gō Awazu Mario Abe Izumi Hara Isao Hashizume Hisashi Igawa

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Synopsis

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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