Tampopo (1985)
タンポポ
"The first Japanese Noodle Western."
ThumbScore
👍 87%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 94%
(RT: 100%, MC: 87) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Tsutomu Yamazaki as Goro
Nobuko Miyamoto as Tampopo
Rikiya Yasuoka as Pisken
Kinzō Sakura as Shohei
Hyōe Enoki as Pisken's Henchman
Gō Awazu as Pisken's Henchman
Is Tampopo good?
Yes. 87% audience score, estimated from 462 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 94%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
