A classic comedy film, Tampopo follows two milk truck drivers, Goro and his sidekick, Gun, who stop by a roadside noodle shop, Lai Lai, where they decide to help the titular widowed shop owner.

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro, who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect noodle soup restaurant. Woven into this ...

The trouble is that it wasn’t true. “I love the movie, but it didn’t inspire me to open a ramen shop,” Orkin confessed. “‘Tampopo made me do it’ was easier to say than ‘It all ...

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