Tampopo (1985)
Movie
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.
Directed By : Jūzō Itami
Genres : Comedy
Status : Released
Released : Nov 23, 1985
Tagline : The first Japanese Noodle Western.
Length : 115 minutes
Cast
- Tsutomu Yamazaki
- Nobuko Miyamoto
- Ken Watanabe
- Koji Yakusho
- Rikiya Yasuoka
- Kinzō Sakura
- Hyōe Enoki
- Gō Awazu
- Mario Abe
- Izumi Hara
- Isao Hashizume
- Hisashi Igawa
- Toshimune Kato
- Kenso Kato
- Yoshi Katō
- Yoshihiro Katō
- Toshiya Fujita
- Fukumi Kuroda
- Nobuo Nakamura
- Mariko Okada
- Yoshihei Saga
- Setsuko Shinoi
- Hitoshi Takagi
- Chōei Takahashi
- Ei Takami
- Akio Tanaka
- Masahiko Tsugawa
- Hideji Ōtaki
- Naritoshi Hayashi
- Yoriko Doguchi
- Ryutaro Otomo
- Gilyak Amagasaki
Crew
- Producer : Yasushi Tamaoki
- Producer : Jūzō Itami
- Screenplay : Jūzō Itami
- Director of Photography : Masaki Tamura
- Editor : Akira Suzuki
- Producer : Seigo Hosogoe
- Director : Jūzō Itami
- Original Music Composer : Kunihiko Murai
- Fight Choreographer : Masatsugu Takase
- Assistant Director : Kazuki Shirayama
- Casting : Shigeru Sakurada
- Art Direction : Takeo Kimura
- Casting : Kosaburo Sasaoka
- Set Decoration : Toshiharu Ochi
- Costume Design : Emiko Kogô
- Sound Effects Editor : Masatoshi Saito
- Makeup Artist : Midori Konuma
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer : Kyōji Kōno
- Assistant Camera : Takashi Moro
- Graphic Designer : 佐村憲一
- Sound Recordist : Fumio Hashimoto
- Gaffer : Yukio Inoue