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Tampopo [DVD] [1986] [US Import]

DVD ~ Ken Watanabe
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kôji Yakusho, Rikiya Yasuoka
  • Directors: Juzo Itami
  • Writers: Juzo Itami
  • Producers: Juzo Itami, Seigo Hosogoe, Yasushi Tamaoki
  • Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, PAL
  • Language Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Fox Lorber
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Nov 1998
  • Run Time: 114 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6305154880
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 44,282 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good enough to eat, 11 May 2004
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Directed by Juzo Iami this is a tremendously enjoyable, touching and stylish film exploring, amongst other things, the relationship between eating and sex (the scene involving a gangster, his moll and a raw egg has to be seen to be believed!).

At the heart of it all is a young widow named Tampopo (played by Nobuko Miyamoto) who is struggling to make ends meet by running a noodle restaurant. Ambling into the story to help her comes Goro, a genial John Wayne kind of urban cowboy (well, actually a truck driver), and together they set out to find the perfect ramen recipe.

Along the way Itami inserts a series of comic vignettes, lightly poking fun at stuffy bureaucrats, macho Japanese males, spaghetti westerns and, especially, the Japanese love affair with food. Wonderful stuff.

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly my favourite film of all time (well, top 3!), 13 Mar 2004
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Noodles, fighting, love, cowboys, trucking, tramps...

Basically the story of a bunch of misfit characters trying to beat the competition by perfecting the art of fast food noodles. At one level it's definitely a foodie movie, but there's something else here as well. At one point our heroes meet a bunch of down and outs musing over their own noodles and our guys are told "these people live life deeply". This somehow describes the je ne sais quoi of this movie for me.

Very funny, strangely moving and affecting. Really worth watching.

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Food, glorious food and much, much more..., 28 Dec 2005
This is one of my favourite films of all time and never fails to pick me up when I'm feeling down. It has everything - a central story to warm your heart, namely, downtrodden noodlemaker and her bullied son meeting "Cowboy" Trucker Goro and his friend and begin the quest for the perfect bowl of noodles, interspersed with food reated stories that will make you laugh a lot and cry a little. Yes there is the celebrated and very sexy egg yolk scene - and very good it is too but the film is more than that.
Right down to the perfect closing credits the relationship between food and people is never forgotten. I never get tired of seeing this film, I love it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Warm, distinctive and funny
Tampopo is a rare thing indeed: a film with a brain, a heart - and a stomach!

Milk truck driver Goro and his friend Gun stumble across a sleepy noodle bar, Lai Lai,... Read more
Published 23 months ago by ds

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding, warm film about noodle soup and human relationships. How to make a rice omelet is included
Tampopo has been compared to everything from a Shane-like Japanese western (loner comes riding into town and winds up helping, against the odds, a young widow with a little boy)... Read more
Published on 8 Jun 2007 by C. O. DeRiemer

5.0 out of 5 stars Eggs-tremely good film
I first saw this film by flicking through the t.v channels in Canada and quickly stopped channel surfing. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2005 by eye-buy-things

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite films of all time
This film is basically "How to make perfect noodles" - but being Japanese nothing is a simple as that and the tale is a quest to produce the perfect bowlfull. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2003

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