Tampopo

Year: 1985

Country: Japan

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 like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect noodle soup restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food, to an old woman who terrorizes a shopkeeper by compulsively squeezing his wares.The movie depicts the relationship between food and sex through the image of a widow running a Tokyo restaurant and a cowboy hat-wearing truck driver who try to make the perfect bowl of ramen. 

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