Tampopo
DVD - 2017
"The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe"--Container.
- Series
- Criterion collection ;
868.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Comedy films
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, New York] :
The Criterion Collection
[2017]
- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition
- Language
- Japanese
English - Item Description
- Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
New 4K digital restoration.
Bonus features: The making of "Tampopo," a ninety-minute documentary from 1986, narrated by director Juso Itami ; new interview with actor Nobuko Miyamoto ; new interviews with ramen scholar Hiroshi Osaki ; food stylist Seiko Ogawa ; and American chefts Sam White Rayneil de Guzman, Jerry Jaksich, and Anthony Bourdain ; Rubber band pistol, Itami's 1962 debut short film ; new video essay by Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos on the film's themes of self-improvement and mastery of a craft ; trailer. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (114 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Masaki Tamura ; editor, Akira Suzuki ; music, Kunihiko Murai.
- ISBN
- 9781681432861
1681432862
0715515196017 - Corporate Authors
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- Other Authors
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- disc 1.
- [Feature film]
- disc 2.
- [Special features].
Down-at-the-heels restaurant owner Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) pursues the perfect ramen, thanks to tutelage from a noodle soup-loving trucker (Tsutomu Yamazaki) who takes a shine to the pixie-coiffed single mother serving up the classic Japanese dish. The entrée amidst several side dish story lines—mainly a recurring one featuring a gangster's use of food as an aphrodisiac—earns Juzi Itami's (A Taxing Woman) delectable comedy a place at the table of memorable culinary flicks (Babette's Feast; Big Night; Chocolat; et al.) worth feasting on. [Trailers, LJ 3/1/17] Copyright 2017 Library Journal.
"The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges, our appetites."
Review by Publisher Summary 2When a western-clad stranger passing through town finds the widow Tampopo's restaurant food intolerable, he stays just long enough to teach her to prepare the perfect noodle.