Tampopo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tampopo |
| Original title | タ ン ポ ポ
Tanpopo Tampopo |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jūzō Itami |
| script | Jūzō Itami |
| production |
Seigo Hosogoe Jūzō Itami Yasushi Tamaoki |
| music | Kunihiko Murai |
| camera | Masaki Tamura |
| cut | Akira Suzuki |
| occupation | |
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Tampopo ( Japanese タ ン ポ ポ tanpopo , German ' dandelion ' ), also Tampopo - Magical Noodles , is a Japanese comedy film made in 1985 by the director Jūzō Itami . The main theme of the film is the preparation and appreciation of Japanese noodle soup . The 114-minute film was produced by Itami Productions and New Century Productions .
action
Two truckers, one young and one older, more experienced, visit a ramen stall on the roadside. Business isn't going too well, and after getting involved in a brawl, the two decide to help the owner, Tampopo, turn the shop into a role model in the art of noodle soup . The genre of the samurai film is satirized. In the further course of the film, other genres are satirized, such as the mafia film, romance films and westerns - the latter simply because the older truck driver always wears a cowboy hat, like Clint Eastwood also when bathing. This mix of pastiche and film quotes makes the film an early statement of postmodern cinema.
Tampopo is criss-crossed with subplots that mostly have nothing to do with the actual story and whose basic theme is always food, often directly related to sex. In one scene, for example, a yakuza and his lover use food in a hotel room while making love, among other things the yakuza prepares “drunken shrimp” on the woman's body. Other scenes include a young businessman exposing his older colleagues while ordering in a French restaurant, a housewife getting up from her deathbed to prepare a final meal for her family, and a group of women being taught how to do it eats spaghetti the western way , but is dissuaded from it by a European who sips the noodles in the Japanese way in the background.
reception
The film was released in Japanese cinemas on November 23, 1985 and was shown at several film festivals in the following months, including the Toronto International Film Festival . This was followed by cinema releases in the USA and on May 25, 1989 in Germany. From 1989 Tampopo was shown several times on German television. The German DVD edition was expanded to include a scene that could not be seen in the cinema: a cook prepares a turtle soup and kills the animal in front of the guests - and the audience.
The majority of the critics received the film positively. For example, it has been praised that Tampopo is perhaps the funniest film of all time about the connection between food and sex.
Reviews
Well-known US film critic Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times : “And this very, very Japanese film, which doesn't seem to make any effort to communicate with other cultures, is generally funny, mostly for that reason. Who cannot identify with the search for the perfect pasta? Certainly every American can do that in the land of the corn festivals, the bake-offs and the chili competitions. A very funny film. "
“An episodic film about the themes of food and eros, which fuses different film genres into one unit. The intelligently entertaining satirical film undermines common viewing habits and skillfully juggles, sometimes playfully, sometimes quite drastically, with them. "
Awards
The film won two Japanese Academy Awards in 1986 in the categories of Best Sound and Best Editing , and two prizes at the Mainichi Eiga Concours , also for sound and best supporting actor ( Hisashi Igawa ).
The film was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Independent Spirit Awards in 1988 , but had to admit defeat to Lasse Hallström's Mein Leben als Hund .
Web links
- Tampopo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tampopos noodle soup recipe
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Term "た ん ぽ ぽ - tanpopo". In: wadoku . Retrieved January 1, 2020 (German, Japanese).
- ↑ a b Term "た ん ぽ ぽ - tanpopo". In: tangorin.com. Retrieved January 1, 2020 (English, Japanese).
- ↑ Hal Hinson: Tampopo (NR) . In: The Washington Post , June 17, 1987
- ↑ Roger Ebert: “And this very, very Japanese movie, which seems to make no effort to communicate to other cultures, is universally funny almost for that reason. Who cannot identify with the search for the perfect noodle? Certainly any American can, in the land of sweet corn festivals, bakeoffs and contests for the world's best chili. This is a very funny movie. " Review Tampopo. In: Chicago Sun-Times , September 11, 1987
- ↑ Tampopo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .