Tampopo 1985 ‘タンポポ’ Directed by Juzo Itami
A pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop 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".
Tsutomu Yamazaki Nobuko Miyamoto Ken Watanabe Koji Yakusho Rikiya Yasuoka Mario Abe Sen Hara Isao Hashizume Hisashi Igawa Toshimune Kato Kensô Katô Yoshi Katô Yoshihiro Katô Fukumi Kuroda Nobuo Nakamura Mariko Okada Yoshihei Saga Kinzoh Sakura Setsuko Shinoi Hitoshi Takagi Chôei Takahashi Ei Takami Akio Tanaka Masahiko Tsugawa Hideji Ôtaki Narutoshi Hayashi Yoriko Dôguchi Ryutaro Otomo Gilyak Amagasaki Show All…
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The saying goes that some people eat to live, and some people live to eat. Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” is the rare serving of food porn that brings both groups to the table. First released in 1985 (and now returning to theaters with a delectable new 4K restoration), this timeless Japanese classic begins with a petulant gangster bringing a full picnic into a movie theater, and ends with a hungry infant instinctively suckling on his mother’s breast. In between, Itami’s fiercely beloved film unfolds like a prix fixe tasting menu of strange comic delights, the director’s fabulist sensibilities feeding into an episodic foodie fantasia about all of the things that give life its flavor and make it worth savoring.
The only…
81/100
No doubt I'm forgetting something, but it's hard to think of another film with a structure like this: clear narrative throughline plus multiple tangents related solely by theme. Seeing it during its original U.S. theatrical run, at age 19, expanded my sense of what a movie can be; three decades later, the playfulness still delights, even if not all of the blackout sketches fully satisfy. (The one involving dueling con men is barely even food-related.) It's also clearer to me now that the main story, cannily marketed by New Yorker Films as a "noodle Western," really owes much more to American sports movies and their training montages. Applying the genre's tropes to ramen preparation is an inspired idea that's…
"Apologize to the pork."
One of the most erotic movies of all time. If only there were an English word that meant horny and hungry at the same time. In the decade or so since I saw this last, I forgot about all the surreal digressions from the main plot: the secret ingredients that make this movie so damn fun and delicious. (Except for that egg yolk scene. Gross.)
fifty shades thought they were all that with the ice cube - pass an egg yolk between your mouths THEN get back to me
Written and directed by Juzo Itami, Tampopo is a movie that is both prevalently energetic and mouthwateringly delicious. Commencing with its opening scene where a man (played by Kôji Yakusho) breaks the fourth wall and starts conversing about life, food and love, and the various associations between the themes. It's a bizarre story which wholeheartedly celebrates taking off on delightfully entertaining digressions; pleasantly entwining its ideas of affection and nourishment with several adventurous and comical aspects.
The film the eggplant emoji was made for. Fun and goofy and hungry and real thirsty.
On second viewing: the ending is less of a bummer, the turtle scene is still unbearable, and WOW I forgot how much nudity was in this, not the best plane pick!
By far the greatest food porn-with-quite-a-bit-of-consumer-criticism movie with the best sound design ever.
Una geniale rimodellazione dei canoni del Western in ambito culinario.
Un film bizzarro che alterna la trama principale ad alcune side story, diventando un inno al cibo e al suo fondamentale ruolo nella vita (come ribadirà fortemente la sequenza nei titoli di coda).
Sarà un divertimento (ri)vedere tutti i classici cliché del genere western: a volte contestualizzati al tema a volte presi presi in giro dal film.
A ferire non saranno i proiettili ma le valutazioni culinarie, al posto dei coraggiosi cowboy avremo dei severi maestri del Ramen.
Un film veramente unico, bizzarro alla maniera dei giapponesi, che sorprende per la lucidità con cui reinventa un genere.
Il primo Ramen Western (come si dichiara divertito il film) della storia del…
Ok yeah the egg is horrible but pressing those jumping shrimp down on her stomach.... that’ll give me nightmares
The story of how to make the most delicious Ramen will make your mouth waters through out the film. The opening scene is enough to capture your attention into the world of Ramen/food. I liked the tricks of stories embedded in stories and direct filmmaking actions. The scenes in the margins harmonized perfectly with the storyline and shaped the idea of food being an essential element of our lives in birth and death and the act of falling in love. It was a very captivating film.
i feel like i was screaming at this movie the entire time. highly enjoyable. love the kid ordering the fancy meal and embarrassing everyone. also love the white suit man
A very sweet film that also happens to feature two fucked up sex scenes involving food that are straight up Cronenberg Body Horror. Sorry to kink shame, but passing raw egg yolk back and forth orally is some real not-4-me shit.
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