• Title: Tampopo
• Year: 1985
• Duration: 1h 54m
• Rating: 7,9
• Genres: Comedy

Summary Tampopo (1985)

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

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.

Tampopo, a widowed noodle chef, is helped to become a first-class chef by truck driver Goro and friends. Food is the theme throughout this movie, and it includes novel uses of food as erotic toys.

Synopsis Tampopo (1985)