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Tampopo (1985)

Comedy | 114 minutes
3,59 292 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 114 minuten

Alternative titles: Paardenbloem / Dandelion / タンポポ

Country: Japan

Directed by: Jûzô Itami

Stars: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto and Ken Watanabe

IMDb score: 7,9 (24.297)

Releasedate: 23 November 1985

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Tampopo plot

"The first Japanese Noodle Western."

In this movie about the joys of food, the main story is about the driver Goro who moves into the city as a modern 'Shane' to help Tampopo to set up a perfect fast-food noodles restaurant. Woven into this story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food: from a gangster who combines hot sex with food to an old lady who terrorizes a shop owner with her compulsive obsession with squeezing food.

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De filosoof

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The film is two hours of rambling about and playing with food and could barely keep me interested. The film is not exciting, not moving and not funny. Although the film does have humor, it is a lame farce humor that usually couldn't bring a smile to my face. The western story about food replaces the usual violence with food and because everything in the film is about food and everyone in the film is obsessed with food, the film elevates food to a kind of religion that is said to reflect Japanese culture. But even more, the association with sex is palpable; because of the combination of farce and erotic worship of food, the film is essentially a Tyrolean sex film that has replaced sex with food (conversely, I also remember a documentary on TV about the Japanese obsession with using food in sex like the gangster couple in the movie does). Probably because I'm not Japanese I don't really care about that food and I would rather have seen a real western or Tyrolean sex film.

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Donkerwoud

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If Mel Brooks had been more interested in noodles, suggestive sexual acts with raw foods and the Japanese metropolis with 'Blazing Saddles' (1973), his classic would have become something like 'Tampopo' (1985). It's been a while since I've unabashedly rolled off my cinema seat with laughter, because a comedy strikes exactly that balance between strong jokes, bawdyness, slapstick, and the kind of general weirdness that Japanese filmmakers are known for. The characters are such fun archetypes too. Whether it's the cheerful Gorô (Tsutomu Yamazaki) who, wearing a cowboy hat, big belt, leather boots and American trucks, runs a distressed noodle business with a face that looks like hewn from the same man rock as Clint Eastwood's. Or the cheerful whirlwind Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) who at times rages subdued and then hyperactively through the image. Or the yakuza boss Man in White Suit (Kôji Yakusho) who has eating sex throughout the movie or neatly follows the clichés of a gangster drama, while having no other function in the storyline than breaking the fourth wall. And then all those other skits around it in which food items expose both social etiquette and the power differences between characters. A warning in advance for the sensitive eater: a la Sergio Leone is often zoomed in on eating people. Can be traumatic!

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BBarbie

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A movie about food. The focus is on restoring an ailing ramen restaurant. With some regularity, crazy intermezzos are inserted with short scenes, which in one way or another also have to do with food. I really liked the scene with the egg yolk. Equally special was that the credits are supported by a lovely close-up of breastfeeding and the sounds of an Amsterdam street organ with the Jordaan hit "At the foot of the old Wester". successful, sometimes hilarious comedy, albeit with some side effects because it leaves you hungry, at least I do.

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