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Tampopo Films Sans Frontieres
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Japanese
- Genre:
- Internet videos
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 49 min., 28 sec)) sound
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Films Sans Frontieres, [1986]
- System Details:
- Streaming video file
- System requirements: FOD playback platform
- video file
- Summary:
- 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 fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food to an old lady terrorizing a shopkeeper by compulsive squeezing of his wares. Featuring Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe, Rikiya Yasuoka. NBR Award for Top Foreign Films, National Board of Review, USA, 1987. Best Editing and Best Sound awards, Awards of the Japanese Academy, 1986. In Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Jûzô Itami. Japan.This film contains mature themes and explicit language and imagery. Viewer discretion is advised
- Notes:
- Originally released by Films Sans Frontieres, 1986
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 15, 2016
- Title from distributor's description
- Publisher Number:
- 56979 Infobase
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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