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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Humor Movie Release: 1986 DVD Release: 11/24/1998 Format: DVD - Letterbox for TV Audio Tracks: Japanese Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 54 mins Studio: Fox Lorber Members Wishing: 36 Genres: Comedy, Satire, Comedy of Manners

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 (Nobuko Miyamoto) improve her noodle restaurant. Over the course of the film, the story drifts around, not only following the stories of Tampopo, her son, and Goro, but also a number of customers who come through the diner, including an old woman (Izumi Hara) who insists on squeezing the cheese at a market and a criminal (Ken Watanabe) with a food-based kink. Tampopo was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1988 Independent Spirit Awards. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

Ken Watanabe - Gun
Nobuko Miyamoto - Tampopo
Tsutomu Yamazaki - Goro
Koji Yakusho - Man in White Suit
Rikiya Yasuoka - Pisken

Juzo Itami's famed "noodle western" Tampopo comes to DVD from Fox Lorber Home Video. Presented in 1.85:1 widescreen and featuring a Japanese Dolby Digital Stereo soundtrack, optional English subtitles are also available. Extra features include filmographies. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide