"There's no shortage of customers for good ramen"

Join the Asian Cinema Collective for a special screening of Tampopo (1985) dir. Juzu Itami on the big screen at Chinatown Cinema! P.S. Make sure you eat before the film - this is not one to see with an empty stomach! 

It has the irresistible freshness of a recipe that many have tried to copy and none have matched: a barbed, sprawling, scintillating vision of a society happily in thrall to its taste buds -  Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times 

Beloved by many cinema fans, Juzu Itami’s Tampopo (1985) is a delicious ode to food, love and of course, Ramen. An homage to western films of the time, Tampopo (1985) follows the story of a widow running a failing ramen business in Tokyo. When two truck drivers stop at the restaurant for a late night feed, they take pity on her lack of skills but appreciate her passion and take it upon themselves to help her craft the perfect bowl of ramen. Alongside this story is a series of vignettes that explore how we engage with, appreciate and celebrate food in restaurants, supermarket stores and even the bedroom.

Tampopo is one of those utterly original movies that seems to exist in no known category. Like the French comedies of Jacques Tati, it's a bemused meditation on human nature in which one humorous situation flows into another offhandedly, as if life were a series of smiles -  Robert Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

Film: Tampopo タンポポ

Director: Juzo Itami

Rating: M

Run Time: 115

Language: Japanese with English Subtitles