Jûzô Itami: Tampopo (1985)

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe, Kôji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food to an old lady terrorizing a shopkeeper by compulsive squeezing of his wares.





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