Tampopo

Tampopo is a great Japanese spoof of spaghetti westerns and probably the most funny movie I have ever seen.

EGC Clambake for September 6, 2005 2005

Besides, will it not be refreshing to write/read a post about ramen from a noodle shop called Tampopo with a totally fresh tone, completely devoid of quotes, scenes, and metaphors from the movie to guide me along in a would-be pop-culturally sensitive post?

Tampopo - A Crunky Quickie at the Market 2006

Besides, will it not be refreshing to write/read a post about ramen from a noodle shop called Tampopo with a totally fresh tone, completely devoid of quotes, scenes, and metaphors from the movie to guide me along in a would-be pop-culturally sensitive post?

Archive 2006-04-01 2006

There's belly and pineapple in one of his fried rices; luscious slabs gently splayed across the top of a bowl of ramen that would make the characters in "Tampopo" swoon with pleasure.

Steve Dolinsky: Is Urban Belly Chicago's Answer to Momofuku? 2008

"Tampopo" is the funniest film ever made about food and sex (and film genres), and the payoff of a scene in a fancy hotel room is a 45-second kiss during which a Yakuza smoothie and his girlfriend pass a raw egg yolk from mouth to mouth -- seven times before the yolk breaks.

Kissing and Telling 2008

"Tampopo" is the funniest film ever made about food and sex (and film genres), and the payoff of a scene in a fancy hotel room is a 45-second kiss during which a Yakuza smoothie and his girlfriend pass a raw egg yolk from mouth to mouth -- seven times before the yolk breaks.

A kiss, as time goes by 2008

The most conspicuous omission for me -- though inconspicuous, too, since the film remains relatively unknown to American audiences -- is an intensely erotic and brilliantly comic egg-in-your-face kiss in "Tampopo," the 1986 Japanese-language comedy by Juzo Itami.

Kissing and Telling 2008

The most conspicuous omission for me -- though inconspicuous, too, since the film remains relatively unknown to American audiences -- is an intensely erotic and brilliantly comic egg-in-your-face kiss in "Tampopo," the 1986 Japanese-language comedy by Juzo Itami.

A kiss, as time goes by 2008

Inspired in part by the movie "Tampopo," a story of a man's effort to make a perfect bowl of ramen, and in part by the dish's affordability, he ate a lot of ramen.

Trying to Out-Noodle the Japanese 2007

This line is befitting of 'Food at Twenty-Four Frames Per Second' ( 'Food at 24fps'), the free film festival which "Tampopo," an ode to the ramen noodle, opened last Monday in the Adams Pool Theatre.

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