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Tampopo

1985

Jūzō Itami

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Kôji Yakusho ...

7.0

1,128

Comedy 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.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Richard Vine The Guardian	"[It] played with the language of film as it tried to do it all: to be a comedy and a drama, to show death, sex and food all together (...) It's packed with indelible moments"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Tampopo' is one of those utterly original movies that seems to exist in no known category (...) [It] is universally funny (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Matt Brown Screen Anarchy	"'Tampopo' will make you hungry (...) A great film"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Like all of the best comfort food, 'Tampopo' tastes familiar but not derivative, something more than the sum of its ingredients."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Charming and touching, with lots of sumptuous meals to inspire you to get cooking (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Budd Wilkins Slant	"A zesty, albeit wholesomely satisfying, concoction concerned with the virtues of community and cooperation (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Its satire originates from a place of the utmost sincerity. 'Tampopo' doesn't just take food seriously; it grasps the foundational roles that food plays in every culture"	POS

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