The surreally amusing vignette that opens the great 1985 Japanese comedy “Tampopo” now plays, more than 30 years later, like a remarkably prescient public-service announcement. A gangster in a white ...

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“Tampopo”: Imagine a foodie movie structured like a spaghetti Western. That is the delightful approach of Juzo Itami’s classic 1985 film “Tampopo,” about a mysterious drifter, complete with Man With ...

Savor the delectable comedy Tampopo on a full stomach. Juzo Itami’s 1985 paean to the fastidious preparation and blissful consumption of food created an American hunger for Japanese cuisine, and can ...

TAMPOPO is a beloved Japanese film from 1985 that is a paean to the joys of food. It will be screened next Tuesday, September 10th, as part of Movies for Foodies, a regular film series put on by the ...

In the years since first stumbling across Tampopo, I've rewatched many other films many more times, but Juzo Itami's "ramen western" has always stayed in my mind. It was the first film I'd ever seen ...

Early in Juzo Itami's 1985 film Tampopo, a young man sidles up to the counter of a ramen restaurant, accompanied by an elderly sensei who, the narrator explains, has been studying the traditional ...

Released in 1985, Juzo Itami's “Tampopo” was famously a flop in Japan, but a hit abroad, especially in the United States, where it became the second-highest-earning Japanese film ever. This “noodle ...