Tampopo

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

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 vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Goro

Nobuko Miyamoto

Tampopo

Ken Watanabe

Gun

Koji Yakusho

Man in White Suit

Rikiya Yasuoka

Pisken

Gō Awazu

Hyōe Enoki

Pisken's Henchman

Mario Abe

Resutoran no shachô

Izumi Hara

Old Woman Pressing Camembert Cheese

Isao Hashizume

Waiter

Hisashi Igawa

Running Man

Toshimune Kato

Young Employee

Kenso Kato

Hira

Yoshihiro Katô

Yoshi Katō

Noodle-making Master

Toshiya Fujita

Man with Toothache

Fukumi Kuroda

Man in White Suit's mistress

Nobuo Nakamura

Old gentleman