Fantastic comedy on Japanese food culture
Tampopo released in 1985 showed that the Japanese were far ahead of most of the world in loving food.<br /><br />The film is based upon a single mom, Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) who runs a small ramen shop who is struggling because her noodles aren’t that good. Two truck drivers, Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki) and Gun (Ken Watanabe) stumble across her business and decide to mentor her on how to make a perfect bowl of ramen. That requires her to go to other businesses to compare their products, and go to a series of masters that even includes an old homeless man to learn the trade. Many of these situations are hilarious such as when she goes to one ramen shop and goes over everything they do wrong.<br /><br />You would never know that was the movie however because it starts with a gangster and his girlfriend at the movies complaining about audiences making too much noise. They return throughout the movie along with other small snippets that include side stories. Again, these are rather funny such as when a group of businessmen go to a French restaurant. They don’t know what to order so after the boss makes his decision, all the others order the exact same thing except for a really nerdy guy who knows French and makes a very detailed list of all the food he wants. The scene then switches to an etiquette teacher who tells her students not to slurp when eating pasta. However, then a western man in the restaurant starts slurping the whole class follows his lead and slurps away.<br /><br />You also get the foodie moments. The second scene for example has Gun eating ramen with an expert who goes over how to truly appreciate a bowl of soup. In another Goro puts Tampopo through basic training on how to make ramen. She has to lift and move a bucket full of water back and forth in her kitchen. She has to fill a table full of bowls in a set amount of time, etc.<br /><br />The movie is bizarre at times, highly comedic, and a fantastic food film all wrapped in one. I’ve seen it several times over the years and it never gets old.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : "Tampopo" is a celebration of the role of food in Japanese culture. Acclaimed director Juzo Imati's ("The Funeral," "A Taxing Woman") hit satire was dubbed the first "noodle western" or "ramen western" for its delightful parody of American Spaghetti Westerns and Japanese Samurai films. "Tampopo" follows a young widow (Nobuko Miyamoto) who runs a small noodle restaurant in Tokyo, and Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki), a cowboy hat-wearing truck driver, as they attempt to devise the perfect bowl of top ramen. Don't miss the young Ken Watanabe ("The Last Samurai," "Inception") appearing in an early role as Goro's sidekick, Gun..