Tampopo

press release:

Japan | 1985 | DCP | 114 min. | Japanese with English subtitles

Director: Juzo Itami

Cast: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomo Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto

Food and uproarious humor are the main ingredients for Itami’s comedy and Samurai Western parody, one of the funniest movies ever produced in Japan. The story concerns a mysterious truck driver who helps a widow turn her ramen noodle shop into a success by finding the perfect recipe. The numerous witty episodes include a delightful digression about the adventures of a gastronome gangster. New 4K restoration.

Special Presentations: Spring 2017 is filled with numerous special repertory screenings. Our lineup includes several new restorations, including new DCPs of Julie Dash’s landmark movie Daughters of the Dust, Juzo Itami’s uproarious food comedy Tampopo, and Julien Duvivier’s terrific thriller Panique. We will also present a new DCP of the long-thought-lost RKO proto-disaster movie Deluge which will screen as part of a “flood and fire” double feature with a 35mm print of another RKO super production, The Last Days of Pompeii. Other 35mm showings include the ultra-rare "Moment in Time" cut of animator Richard Williams' magnum opus, The Thief and the Cobbler; Ingmar Bergman’s film of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and two fine IB Technicolor prints of Francis Ford Coppola’s two 1974 releases (and Best Picture Oscar nominees) The Godfather Part II and The Conversation. Plus an evening of musical Vitaphone shorts and live musical performance; Al Pacino in William Friedkin’s controversial Cruising; and two very different Cannon Films adaptations of an Elmore Leonard crime novel classic (52 Pick-Up), made only two years apart!

All Cinematheque screenings are free and open to the public.