• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1985-11-23
  • Runtime115 minutes
  • TaglineThe first Japanese Noodle Western.
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreComedy
  • Production
    CompaniesNew Century Producers, Itami Productions
  • Budget1,500,000$

Movie Overview

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.

Casts

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Nobuko Miyamoto

Ken Watanabe

Koji Yakusho

Rikiya Yasuoka

Kinzō Sakura

Hyōe Enoki

Gō Awazu

Isao Hashizume

Hisashi Igawa

Yoshi Katō

Yoshihiro Katō

Toshiya Fujita

Fukumi Kuroda

Nobuo Nakamura

Mariko Okada

Hitoshi Takagi

Chōei Takahashi

Masahiko Tsugawa

Hideji Ōtaki

Naritoshi Hayashi

Yoriko Doguchi

Ryutaro Otomo