Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- widow
- restaurant
- business woman
- restaurant owner
- bullying
- sensei
- food
- truck driver
- erotic vignettes
- hoodlum
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Rikiya Yasuoka — Pisken
- Kinzō Sakura — Shohei
- Hyōe Enoki — Pisken's Henchman
- Gō Awazu — Pisken's Henchman
- Mario Abe — Restaurant Owner
- Izumi Hara — Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese
- Isao Hashizume — Waiter
- Hisashi Igawa — Running Man
- Toshimune Kato — Young Employee
- Kenso Kato — Hira
- Yoshi Katō — Noodle-making Master
- Directed
- Jūzō Itami
- Written
- Jūzō Itami
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 438 ratings
- Studio
- New Century Producers, Itami Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
