“A gleefully sensual and inventive comedy … a quintessentially Japanese lark that blissed out audiences around the world. More than wacky and funny, it’s flavorful.”
—Film Comment

“A paean to the fastidious preparation and blissful consumption … TAMPOPO can still be enjoyed solely as a satisfying feast. But the writer and director Jûzô Itami’s second film is also a biting satire of Japanese culture and its uneasy incorporation of Western influences.”
—The Village Voice

Tonally over-the-top and absolutely irresistible. Bring your appetite because TAMPOPO is a steamy love story, a food-porn movie, and the world’s first “ramen Western.” None of these flavors should work together, but they do — like a perfect bowl of noodles. Hal Hinson of the Washington Post calls it “perhaps the funniest movie about the connection between food and sex ever made.”