Holiday sales events at warehouses, outlets Oct 12, 2009
Tampopo is its wholesale division, importing designs from Japan and Europe. At its sale starting Wednesday, prices will be discounted 50 percent at the cash register on discontinued inventory and overstocks, including a selection of former trade show samples and some seconds. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* FILM REVIEW: Mediterranean Food provides light fare Aug 7, 2009
One thinks with fondness of how food is used as an allegory, a metaphor, a code and a symbol for all that is most fundamental to us in films like Babettes Feast (1987) or Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (1994), Delicatessen (1991) and Tampopo (1987). Whatever else they are about, they never forget the simple thing about food: that it is something we eat. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Cinema's tasty treats Aug 7, 2009
"Tampopo" (1985) -- Often described as the first "Noodle Western," this Japanese comedy chronicles the efforts of Goro, a truck driver and ramen noodle connoisseur, as he transforms the lovely Tampopo into a master noodle chef with the aid of a motley crew of food lovers. The "good guys" in this film are the people with a refined appreciation for food, whatever their place in society. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
5Top: Movies that revolve around eating Jul 23, 2009
Tampopo (1985)From a babys first taste of mothers milk to a dying gangster rhapsodizing over wild-boar sausage, Juzo Itamis critically acclaimed noodle Western pays tribute to the joys of eating and to the integral part that food plays in our life. The main plot deals with truck driver Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki) helping widow Tampopo (the ebullient Nobuko Miyamoto) open a first-class ramen restaurant, but Itami often lets his camera wander off for hilarious sketches dealing with... (MSNBC -- News)
Departures Film Review Jul 12, 2009
Tsutomu Yamazaki ( Tampopo , A Taxing Woman ), Ryoko Hirosue, Kimiko Yo, Takashi Sasano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tetta Sugimoto, Toru Minegishi, Tatsuo Yamada and Yukiko Tachibana. Originally titled "Okuribito", Departures was directed by Yojiro Takita ( We Are Not Alone , When The Last Sword Is Drawn ). (Suite101.com)
Yojiro Takita's Oscar-winning 'Departures' May 24, 2009
He is hired right away by the gruff owner, Sasaki (Tsutomu Yamazaki, the cowboy hat-wearing truck driver from "Tampopo"), and finds out his job is to help prepare the dead for their final journey. Daigo can't bring himself to tell his wife what he does - there's still a bit of a social stigma in Japan reserved for those who do that kind of work. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
CooksDen Announces Culinary Cinema Awards Honoring Food Movies in Unique Categories Feb 13, 2009
The winner of the Culinary Cinema award for Best Food Movie was "Tampopo", an engaging tale of a Ramen-noodle Chef with aspirations beyond her small-town life ... Other nominees in the Best Food Movie category included "Big Night", "Chocolat", "Eat Drink Man Woman", "La Graine et Le Mulet", "Tampopo", "Babette's Feast", "Ratatouille" and "The Scent of Green Papaya". (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
