Película japonesa dirigida por Juzo Itami in 1985
Dur: 114 min
nfo: http://akas.imdb.com/Title?0092048
imdb user rating: 7.6
Sin duda es la mejor comedia japonesa que existe.
Mezcla con inteligencia y originalidad diversos temas y géneros como el western, bandas de yakuzas, comedia, comida, fantasías sexuales o música.
Probablemente fue la primera y la mejor película que se ha realizado en donde la comida es el tema principal.
Es una película originalísima y difícil de clasificar, quizás por eso no sea fácil de encontrar, aprovechad ahora.
Esta película fue nominada como mejor película extranjera en los Independet Spirit Awards en 1988.
(Está película no tiene NADA que ver ni en el estilo ni en la forma con todas esas comedias Chow de Hong-Kong al estilo de "The God of Cookery")
Los links:
Tampopo.1985.DVDRip.XViD-SFM.CD1.avi 
Tampopo.1985.DVDRip.XViD-SFM.CD2.avi Subs español:
Tampopo%5B1%5D.esp-allzine.1y2cds.rar http://www.allzine.com/Foro/viewtopic.php?t=2855
Reviews en inglés:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?tampopo
Review con capturas de pantalla:
http://207.136.67.23/film/DVDReview/tampopo.htm
PLOT:
Actually, this film has a rather interesting construction, not seen since some of the later Monty Python movies. It has a main plot, that of Tampopo, a widow who runs a not-very-good noodle shop. Two truckers, one being the archetype of most Western heroes of the 50s, help her give the bum's rush to a bunch of toughs, and she is inspired to rise above her cooking inadequacies, and become "the best noodle cook in Japan." The plot follows her through her training by her trucker friend, her investigations into the secrets behind really good noodles, and her various trials to get secret ingredients to bring her to noodle nirvana. Meanwhile, the film will suddenly wander from the main plot to various skits occurring nearby, always involving food and usually involving the gangster with the erotic dinner ideas. I have heard a lot of comparisons between some of these scenes and the famous sequences in TOM JONES; while I don't think they're as entertaining as the sequences in JONES, they're funny--erotic humor seems to pass through the language barrier with flying colors. Some of the other sketches are much funnier, including a board-room dinner at a fancy French restaurant. The sketches don't interrupt the main plot of Tampopo (the name of the aspiring noodle chef) for too long, and some (but certainly not all) are worth the side trip.
But the film is about a lot more than just truckdrivers and noodles. It is about food. All manner of food, consumed by all sorts of people. Director Juzo Itami keeps breaking away from the main story to treat us to digression after digression, linking food to the most basic of human conditions to status, to sex, to death and, during the final credits, to the newest of life.
