In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Rated 4.0 / 5 from 2 logs on Katalog
If you want to spice it up - maybe try the yolk thing
Makes you absolutely horny for a bowl of ramen Really fun parody
Virginia Woolf once wrote about how meals play such an important role in our daily lives, but rarely find themselves in fiction, as if it’s something banal and uninteresting, and then proves the opposite by describing her meals of the day in the most captivating and at the same time profound way. Our relationship with food says a lot about who we are as individuals and societies. In Tampopo, food, and meals, play a different, but always an important role in lives scattered in rural and urban 80s Japan: lovers that do some impressive things with yolks, homeless food experts, a clumsy intern with a shocking culinary secret, an elderly food squeezer (I choose this fighter), a scammed restaurant scammer, a housewife who prioritises dinner over dying, and in the centre of it all — Tampopo, determined to bring her subpar highway ramen to perfection, with a group of Western-like sidekicks, as odd as everyone I just described. It’s quirky and creative and funny. But I wouldn’t necessarily eat while watching it.
