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The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous "ramen western" by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Tanpopo (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Itami, Jūzō, 1933-1997 (Screenwriter), Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936- (Actor), Miyamoto, Nobuko, 1945- (Actor), Yakusho, Kōji (Actor), Watanabe, Ken, 1959- (Actor), Tamura, Masaki, 1939-2018 (director of photography.), Murai, Kunihiko (composer (expression))
Format: Video
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:In Japanese with English subtitles.
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019.
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection), 1985.
Subjects:
Restaurant management > Japan > Tokyo > Drama.
Cooking > Japan > Drama.
Ramen > Japan > Drama.
Noodles > Japan > Drama.
Truck drivers > Japan > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Japan > Social life and customs > Drama.
Truck drivers
Ramen
Manners and customs
Cooking
Man-woman relationships
Noodles
Restaurant management
Japan
Japan > Tokyo
Internet videos
Comedy films
Drama
Feature films
Fiction films
Foreign films.
Motion pitures, Japanese.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Internet videos.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy)
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Summary:The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous "ramen western" by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges, our appetites. Interspersing the efforts of TAMPOPO and friends to make her café a success with the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster and glimpses of food culture both high and low, the sweet, sexy, and surreal TAMPOPO is a lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment, and one of the most mouthwatering examples of food on film ever made. Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. *"TAMPOPO is a thriving, celebratory and delightful classic that will leave you ravished by the end, for ramen, Asian cuisine or really, any form of sustenance." - Tina Hassannia, **National Post***
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 1985.
Physical Description:1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): .flv file, sound
Production Credits:Director of photography, Masaki Tamura ; editor, Akira Suzuki ; music, Kunihiko Murai.