Tampopo

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$224,097

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 noodle soup 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 woman who terrorizes a shopkeeper by compulsively squeezing his wares.

🏆 6 wins & 4 nominations total

Director

Jûzô Itami

Cast

Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto

Released

1 September 1987

Runtime

1h 54m

Certificate

Not Rated

IMDb rating

7.9 / 10

Votes

24,757

Metascore

87

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Box office

$224,097

Edition

Base