Tampopo(1985)

Name: Tampopo
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1985
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 7.9

“The first Japanese Noodle Western.”

7.9IMDb

100%Rotten Tomatoes

87Metascore

Comedy1h 55m

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.