The best movie about noodles I've ever seen.

life is food; food is life. A "Ramen Eastern" (Spaghetti Western--get it?)

The scene with egg was marvellous.

The "mock" element in the equation makes excellent sport of all that solemn business of sensei, or "master," in the Japanese tradition; and it makes further sport, somewhat more universally, of the place of priority that food has come to occupy in some people's lives. Like all the better burlesques dating back to _The Rape of the Lock_ or so, this cuts two ways. There is something serious being said about the existential mission of following out one's own destiny

It's like Bunuel in Japan, though that is not to cheapen its charm by likening it to something else. It has a taste all its own. Satirical and ridiculous, but at the same time strikingly genuine. A comedic masterpiece.

If you watch this movie and don't get hungry, you watched it wrong.

Japanese comedy at its best.

This film has funny elements, but they don't come together to make a hilarious whole. Instead, the film deviates on frustratingly vague tangents, leaving hollow observations in its wake.

Amusing and quirky little film. It's not really my thing, but if you like offbeat humour and love food it may be for you.

One of the great non-narratives in the history of film. Simply connected through the human necessity to ingest, the stories are ridiculous, albeit bizarrely relatable: the housewife who cooks One Last Meal, the Western spaghetti eater (not spaghetti western, although there's some of that too) and the Woman in the Grocery are standouts. Best viewed with a bowl of good ramen.

I just don't get what's supposed to be so clever and funny about this one

Accurately labeled as the first noodle western, this food-obsessed, genre mocking and highly inventive comedy is thoroughly enjoyable and even bears some insightful observations about the links of food with sex, death, and even the business world. Probably the best film made about food, just don't watch it on an empty stomach.

The wonderful main course was only made better by the side dishes. Funny and well laid out, the only thing that bothered me were the awkward and abrupt cutscenes.

Tampopo is the greatest food movie of all time. (Other contenders: Babette's Feast, Big Night, Man Woman Eat Drink) The late Juzo Itami directs his usual company in a series of short pieces that examine food in all of its manifestations and meanings to humanity. A unifying plotline concerns the efforts of a trucker to aid a widow trying to run a noodle stand and by the quest for "noodles with sincerity". A great, funny movie!

A clever little spoof comedy, not hilarious but funny enough. It's pretty much exactly what everyone says it is: a "noodle western". The way the narrative would sometimes take odd tangents is simultaneously intriguing and distracting. The actors must have gotten damn sick of noodles, though.

Oh, the joys of food and sex. One of the best films for showing Japanese culture as well. It's got the noodles you want.

A noodle-western replete with a hero of John Wayne comparisons. Wandering into town this truck driver (with the help of his friends of course) aims to aid a poor window running a down and out noodle shop become the best noodle chef around. Good humor and warmth ensue cooking up a recipe for a deliciously entertaining film. Be careful though, if you haven't eaten in a while prepare for your mouth to water. The film soars through a broad scope of Japanese Cuisine while spinning cooking vignettes.

A beautiful feel-good movie. Made me reconsider ramen as fancy food.

I'm hungry as hell.