The first Japanese Noodle Western.
Release date: 1985
Rating 7.9
(25k)1h 55m
The first Japanese Noodle Western.
11/23/1985
NR7.9/10
(24,757 votes)1h 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 i...