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Tampopo
Running Time: 114 min.
MPAA Rating: NR
Produced By: / Itami Productions
Released: May 22, 1987 (USA)

Summary:
The sophomore directorial effort from ill-fated Japanese filmmaker Juzo Itami, Tampopo is an off-beat comedy featuring several intersecting stories all related to food. Tsutomu Yamazaki plays Goro, a truck driver who helps a young widow named Tampopo... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew:
Ken Watanabe (Gun)
Nobuko Miyamoto (Tampopo)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (Goro)
Koji Yakusho (Man in White Suit)
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Review:
A gleeful thumb in the eye of Japan's money-mad 1980s culture, Juzo Itami's masterpiece subverts all that is right and proper with food and sex. Dubbed the first "noodle western," the film concerns a craggy-faced Shane-like stranger (he drives a semi ... Continue >>

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