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Release Date:
September 1987 (USA)
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Tagline:
The first Japanese noodle western!
Plot:
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town...
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Awards:
4 wins
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1 nomination
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Also Known As:
Dandelion (International: English title)
Ja sitten syödään (Finland) [fi]Tampopo - Os Brutos Também Comem Spaghetti (Brazil) [pt]
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Runtime:
114 min
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Quotes:
Man in White Suit:
I'll kill you if you make that noise once the movie starts! Understand? And... I also don't like watch alarms going off.
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The way each scene in Tampopo seems to lead into the next really jarred me when I first started to watch it. Movies with multiple plot lines will often create glaring differences between the scenes, but Itami did the opposite. Ending the bicycle workout scene (with Goro and Tampopo) with the business party walking into the restaurant where the "How to eat Italian food" lesson took place, which, upon conclusion found the camera following a waiter BACK to the business party all occurred seamlessly and left a grin on my face no one else in the room understood. In fact, the pace of the film is very conducive to the second and third viewings. Well, that's my excuse for why none of my friends found it quite as entertaining.