History Film / Tampopo

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''Tampopo'' is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Juzo Itami, starring Tsutomu Yamazaki and Creator/KenWatanabe. A sketch comedy revolving around food, its main narrative involves a pair of truck drivers, one dressed like a cowboy, who take it upon themselves to revitalize the eponymous character's failing ramen shop. Another bit involves a white-suited Yakuza and his mistress engaging in food play. Beyond that, there's a man who teaches the proper method of eating ramen, managers getting upstaged by a subordinate at a French restaurant, spaghetti slurping, homeless foodies, trips to the dentist, an old woman who wrecks a grocer's produce, a pickpocket who loves peking duck, and a dying housewife who prepares one last meal for her family.

* NiceHat: Goro's cowboy hat. He even wears it in the bath!

* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: There's a scene where a bunch of businessmen visit a French restaurant. Each person defers up the ladder of seniority until the CEO of the company orders (Sole Meuniere with consomme and a Heineken). Each person down the chain of command promptly orders the same thing -- except the most junior executive. He turns out to be an expert on French food, and makes a complex order and wine selection that thrills the waiter, but embarrasses the heck out of everyone else.
** This is also somewhat of a commentary on traditional Japanese business etiquette. The exec the henpecked junior guy works for is so preoccupied with not losing face in front of his superiors that he and the others all just order the same thing that the CEO has.

* CultureClash: The high-end European restaurant is offering Western etiquette lessons to Japanese women, where care is taken to demonstrate the "proper" way to eat spaghetti, which is portrayed as a dainty, slow process. The demonstrator is quickly interrupted by a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm_ubnnZusc Western man slurping at his own spaghetti-]], which is ironically the correct etiquette for eating Japanese noodle dishes like ramen.

* ManInWhite: The Yakuza character.

* {{Breaking The Fourth Wall}}: The yakuza at the beginning.
* {{Culture Clash}}: The high-end European restaurant is offering Western etiquette lessons to Japanese women, where care is taken to demonstrate the "proper" way to eat spaghetti, which is portrayed as a dainty, slow process. The demonstrator is quickly interrupted by a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm_ubnnZusc Western man slurping at his own spaghetti-]], which is ironically the correct etiquette for eating Japanese noodle dishes like ramen.
* {{Defeat Means Friendship}}:

* {{Food Porn}}: A literal example as well as a figurative one. Let's just say this movie will make you hungry. Specifically, for ramen.

* {{Good Old Fisticuffs}}: How Goro and Pisken fight.

* {{Lighthearted Rematch}}: After the {{Bar Brawl}}, Pisken asks for a rematch. He felt sorry for not fighting Goro one on one, and they spar again leading to {{Defeat Means Friendship}}.

* {{Nice Hat}}: Goro's cowboy hat. He even wears it in the bath!
* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: There's a scene where a bunch of businessmen visit a French restaurant. Each person defers up the ladder of seniority until the CEO of the company orders (Sole Meuniere with consomme and a Heineken). Each person down the chain of command promptly orders the same thing--except the most junior executive. He turns out to be an expert on French food, and makes a complex order and wine selection that thrills the waiter, but embarrasses the heck out of everyone else.\\\
This is also somewhat of a commentary at traditional Japanese business etiquette. The exec the henpecked junior guy works for is so preoccupied with not losing face in front of his superiors that he and the others all just order the same thing that the CEO has.
* {{Public Domain Soundtrack}}: The movie uses Mahler in several places. Also Liszt.
* {{Ramen Slurp}}: A sketch revolves around it.

* {{Serious Business}}: The preparation and consumption of food, as most of the characters see it.
* {{She Cleans Up Nicely}}: Tampopo in the chef's outfit.
* [[StealthBasedMission Stealth Based Omelette Making]]: Yep, omelette making.
* {{Training Montage}}: Parodied with ramen making.

* {{Yum Yum}}: The crawfish scene.

* {{All Just A Dream}}: The other shop breaking in and attacking Tampopo.
* {{Bar Brawl}}: [[TakeOurWordForIt Takes place offscreen.]]

* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: There's a scene where a bunch of businessmen visit a French restaurant. Each person defers up the ladder of seniority until the CEO of the company orders (Sole Meuniere with consomme and a Heineken) Each person down the chain of command promptly orders the same thing--except the most junior executive. He turns out to be an expert on French food, and makes a complex order and wine selection that thrills the waiter, but embarrasses the heck out of everyone else.
** This is also somewhat of a commentary at traditional Japanese business etiquette. The exec the henpecked junior guy works for is so preoccupied with not losing face in front of his superiors that he and the others all just order the same thing that the CEO has.

* [[WidgetSeries Widget Movie]] It's a western. About ramen.

* OvercomplicatedMenuOrder: There's a scene where a bunch of businessmen visit a French restaurant. Each person defers up the ladder of seniority until the CEO of the company orders (something bland and safe for people new to French cuisine, as I recall.) Each person down the chain of command promptly orders the same thing--except the most junior executive. He turns out to be an expert on French food, and makes a complex order that thrills the waiter, but embarrasses the heck out of everyone else.

* {{Correction Bait}}: Tampopo can't ask another ramen chef for his secrets, but when she accuses him of not performing each step properly, he lays out the entire process in his defense.

''Tampopo'' is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Juzo Itami, starring Tsutomu Yamazaki and Creator/KenWatanabe. A sketch comedy revolving around food, it's main narrative involves a pair of truck drivers, one dressed like a cowboy, who take it upon themselves to revitalize the eponymous character's failing ramen shop. Another bit involves a white-suited Yakuza and his mistress engaging in food play. Beyond that, there's a man who teaches the proper method of eating ramen, managers getting upstaged by a subordinate at a French restaurant, spaghetti slurping, homeless foodies, trips to the dentist, an old woman who wrecks a grocer's produce, a pickpocket who loves peking duck, and a dying housewife who prepares one last meal for her family.

* {{Food Porn}}: A literal example as well as a figurative one. Let's just say this movie will make you hungry.

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* {{Defeat Means Friendship}}: After Pisken and Goro fight one last time, they end up as friends.

* {{Bar Brawl}}: [[TakeOurWordForIt Takes places offscreen.]]

''Tampopo'' is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Juzo Itami, starring Tsutomu Yamazaki and KenWatanabe. A sketch comedy revolving around food, it's main narrative involves a pair of truck drivers, one dressed like a cowboy, who take it upon themselves to revitalize the eponymous character's failing ramen shop. Another bit involves a white-suited Yakuza and his mistress engaging in food play. Beyond that, there's a man who teaches the proper method of eating ramen, managers getting upstaged by a subordinate at a French restaurant, spaghetti slurping, homeless foodies, trips to the dentist, an old woman who wrecks a grocer's produce, a pickpocket who loves peking duck, and a dying housewife who prepares one last meal for her family.

* {{Nice Hat}}: He even wears it in the bath!

''Tampopo'' is a 1985 film directed by Juzo Itami, starring Tsutomu Yamazaki and KenWatanabe. A sketch comedy revolving around food, it's main narrative involves a pair of truck drivers, one dressed like a cowboy, who take it upon themselves to revitalize the eponymous character's failing ramen shop. Another bit involves a white-suited Yakuza and his mistress engaging in food play. Beyond that, there's a man who teaches the proper method of eating ramen, managers getting upstaged by a subordinate at a French restaurant, spaghetti slurping, homeless foodies, trips to the dentist, an old woman who wrecks a grocer's produce, a pickpocket who loves peking duck, and a dying housewife who prepares one last meal for her family.

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%%* [[StealthBasedMission Stealth Based Omelette Making]]
%%* {{Training Montage}}
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* ButYouScrewOneGoat: What the ''hell'' are they doing with that poor crayfish?

* [[ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals It Always Rains At Shootouts]]

* ManInWhite

* {{Ramen Slurp}}

* [[StealthBasedMission Stealth Based Omelette Making]]
* {{Training Montage}}

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* {{Defeat Means Friendship}}
* {{Food Porn}}
* {{Good Old Fisticuffs}}

* {{Ramen Slurp}}

* WhiteShirtOfDeath

* {{Yakuza}}
* {{Yamato Nadeshiko}}
* {{Yum Yum}}

''Tampopo'' is a 1985 film directed by Juzo Itami, starring Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken Watanabe. A sketch comedy revolving around food, it's main narrative involves a pair of truck drivers, one dressed like a cowboy, who take it upon themselves to revitalize the eponymous character's failing ramen shop. Another bit involves a white-suited Yakuza and his mistress engaging in food play. Beyond that, there's a man who teaches the proper method of eating ramen, managers getting upstaged by a subordinate at a French restaurant, spaghetti slurping, homeless foodies, trips to the dentist, an old woman who wrecks a grocer's produce, a pickpocket who loves peking duck, and a dying housewife who prepares one last meal for her family.