A pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop 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".
Tsutomu Yamazaki Nobuko Miyamoto Ken Watanabe Koji Yakusho Rikiya Yasuoka Kinzō Sakura Hyōe Enoki Gō Awazu Mario Abe Izumi Hara Isao Hashizume Hisashi Igawa Toshimune Kato Kenso Kato Yoshi Katō Zenpaku Kato Toshiya Fujita Fukumi Kuroda Nobuo Nakamura Mariko Okada Yoshihei Saga Setsuko Shinoi Hitoshi Takagi Chōei Takahashi Ei Takami Akio Tanaka Masahiko Tsugawa Hideji Ōtaki Naritoshi Hayashi Show All…
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ur in her dms, i’m passing an egg yolk from my mouth into her mouth we are not the same
wow!!!! loved this movie so immediately– delicate and focused in a way that really highlights the directing, but also just so unabashedly goofy in a way so many movies are afraid to be!! can't get over two specific scenes that are just about highlighting the art of paying attention, which i think is my new favorite thing in film. seeing attention and focus portrayed always makes my heart feel warm.
this is like a Monty Python movie, with a beautiful central story that would be seen as pretentious if not specifically made to celebrate the amateur nature of it all. lot of focus placed on the weird horny scenes, and for good reason, but every little side story was so…
the best western i've ever seen and it's set in japan and is entirely about ramen and other assorted foods so checkmate white people
The saying goes that some people eat to live, and some people live to eat. Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” is the rare serving of food porn that brings both groups to the table. First released in 1985 (and now returning to theaters with a delectable new 4K restoration), this timeless Japanese classic begins with a petulant gangster bringing a full picnic into a movie theater, and ends with a hungry infant instinctively suckling on his mother’s breast. In between, Itami’s fiercely beloved film unfolds like a prix fixe tasting menu of strange comic delights, the director’s fabulist sensibilities feeding into an episodic foodie fantasia about all of the things that give life its flavor and make it worth savoring.
The only…
deliciously erotic. my kink is not naughty food sex or oysters or sexy nurses though. my kink is a group of straight men helping a single mom open a successful business and then driving away without asking for anything in return.
forgot how horny this movie was because i only remembered the egg swap (very cool, hot, not as gross as its reputation) and the supermarket scene (incredible, pure looney tunes) but it is horny!! but also, very sweet!! and it makes sense that it’s both because it is ultimately to me a movie about how food and love and creation are so intrinsically linked. plus, food is sensual, and so is precision. awesome to watch with a crowd.
I love this movie so much 😪
so much love and detail and care and FUN
got the blu-ray in the criterion sale and watched a documentary Juzo Itami made while filming it that made me so emotional!!! one of my favorite “‘my wife’ guy” directors and directors period.
81/100
No doubt I'm forgetting something, but it's hard to think of another film with a structure like this: clear narrative throughline plus multiple tangents related solely by theme. Seeing it during its original U.S. theatrical run, at age 19, expanded my sense of what a movie can be; three decades later, the playfulness still delights, even if not all of the blackout sketches fully satisfy. (The one involving dueling con men is barely even food-related.) It's also clearer to me now that the main story, cannily marketed by New Yorker Films as a "noodle Western," really owes much more to American sports movies and their training montages. Applying the genre's tropes to ramen preparation is an inspired idea that's…
"Apologize to the pork."
One of the most erotic movies of all time. If only there were an English word that meant horny and hungry at the same time. In the decade or so since I saw this last, I forgot about all the surreal digressions from the main plot: the secret ingredients that make this movie so damn fun and delicious. (Except for that egg yolk scene. Gross.)
