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Tampopo

Summary: 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.

Genre: Comedy

Director: Jûzô Itami

Writer: Jûzô Itami

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Itami Productions, New Century Productions

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Republic Pictures Home Video, Fox Lorber Home Video, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 224,097

International: $ 223,247

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1980s absent father anger animal cruelty applause audience awkward situation baby bare breasts bathtub beach beaten up beating bellboy black and white scene black and white sequence black eye blood book boy boyfriend girlfriend relationship bra breaking the fourth wall breast feeding breasts bruise bully bullying camera shot of feet caught stealing character name as title character name in title character says i'm sorry character says shut up character's point of view camera shot chase chauffeur checking for a pulse checking pulse choking chopsticks cigarette cigarette smoking cinema city park collapse colleague colleague relationship competitor cook cooking cooking lecture cooking lesson covered in blood coworker coworker relationship criminal crying crying boy crying female crying woman cuisine customer dark comedy dark humor death death by gunshot death of wife dentist desire detective diner disembodied voice diver doctor downpour dream dream scene dream sequence drinking beer drinking sake drinking wine driver as protagonist dumpling eating spaghetti eating sushi eavesdropping egg yolk episodic episodic structure erotica eroticism etiquette fainting fainting woman fake identity false identity female frontal nudity female name as title female name in title female nudity female objectification female star appears topless fetish fetishism fetishist fight fighting film within a film fistfight flashlight flower in title flyswatter food food fetishism food fetishist food tasting foot chase foreplay frying pan gambler gangster gentle cinema girl gourmet guard gunshot handcuffed handcuffed by the police handcuffed man handcuffs homeless homeless man hospital hotel hotel room husband wife relationship hypodermic needle hysterical outburst ice cream ice cream cone ill wife ill woman injection instructor japan japanese japanese food japanese sex comedy jogger jogging jubilation killing a turtle kimono kissing someone's neck kitchen knife knocking on door laughter lecture licking someone's armpit licking someone's face lighting a cigarette lightning lip injury little boy long take loss of wife lust makeover making out male in a bathtub man in a bathtub man in bathtub man kissing a woman's neck man licking a woman's armpit man reading a newspaper man wears a tank top man wears an open shirt man wears glasses man wears sunglasses mentor menu metafiction metropolis money mother son relationship movie theater name as title name in title narrated by character narrated by protagonist non sequitur noodle noodle shop noodles nudity nurse old man old woman one against many one word title outburst overheard conversation oyster panties passenger pickpocket plant in title police detective pork pouring rain prawn pretending to be a professor pretending to be someone else professor punched in the face railroad tracks railway crossing rain rain storm rainstorm ramen reading a newspaper recipe restaurant restaurant owner riding a bicycle riding a bike ritual room makeover running saving someone's life scene during end credits scream screaming woman sea secret secret recipe secretly observing security guard sensuality sexuality shooting shot to death singing singing along single mother sitting on stairs sitting on the floor slurping spaghetti spitting spitting in someone's face spitting out drink spitting out food spoof stolen money stolen wallet stop watch storm supermarket sushi swindler symbolism taking a bath talking to the audience talking to the camera team work tears telephone call telling someone to shut up thief thunder thunder storm thunderstorm timeframe 1980s title spoken by character toothache topless female topless female nudity topless woman train truck truck driver truck driver as protagonist turtle umbrella vacuum cleaner vacuum cleaning vagabond vendor voice over narration voyeurism waiter waitress waking up screaming walking with a cane wet clothes whistle widow widower woman licking a man's face woman wears glasses woman wears sweatpants written by director yakuza

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