Friday, December 16 | 5:30 & 8 pm
Saturday, December 17 | 8 pm
Sunday, December 18 | 5:30 pm
Billed as the world’s first “Noodle Western” and hailed by critics as one of the best food movies of all time, Jûzô Itami’s Tampopo is an ecstatic, multi-sensory paean to the delicate art of ramen, and to the exquisite pleasures of food and cooking. Resourceful Tampopo has been struggling in vain to keep her late husband’s small ramen shop afloat. One stormy night, a mysterious, truck-driving culinary master named Gôrô rolls into town… and everything changes. Interspersed with the central narrative, a series of mouth-watering vignettes explore the surreal and sensual sides of gastronomic obsession. Returning to select American theaters for the first time in decades, Tampopo is presented in a new, richly textured 4K restoration—complete with a re-mastered soundtrack and new subtitle translation—rendering this rare cinematic treat even more delectable.
Director Jûzô Itami 1985 Japan 114 minutes NR DCP
