Tampopo
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Movie Reviews of Tampopo
Movie Review: Excellent movie, excellent version
Summary: 5 Stars
American "Tampopo" seekers, search no more. This is an excellent version--no quality problems at all. Enjoy!Movie Review: very well done japanese western
Summary: 5 Stars
excelent movie loved it.first saw it in 1985 in nyc.wanted to add it to my collection of great movies.Movie Review: An all-time favourite.
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like ramen and Japanese humour, this is for you. I think it's brilliant and highly recommended.Movie Review: opinion
Summary: 5 Stars
Happy that Amazon could find it for me even if it took then quiet a while to find itMovie Review: Brilliant film, basic DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
Tanpopo is one of the most inventive films made in Japan in the last 30 years. Some regard it as being atypical of Japanese cinema, almost European in construction, while others regard the subject matter as being representative of Japanese cultural essence. Both views can be qualified and verified, but the core of the matter is that Tanpopo is a film with a very simple basic story, a simple moral as found in any Hollywood feel-good movie, good character development, and some outstanding acting performances by both central and peripheral characters. Those are the standard elements, but what makes the film so unusual is that the core story is interwoven, to varying degrees of depth and connectedness, with other tales, all related by an obsession with food. The film has farcical slapstick, and dry, astringent humour, some of it very black, and tragedy with little or no humour attached.
The DVD has no features, no special information, the case tells next to nothing of the content or production, and some of the sub-titles could have been better translated. It is not terribly cheap considering there is so little other than the film contained within, but that is the point: the film is so good, and can be watched time and time again that the price is certainly worth paying.
Another point is that the disc claims to be region free, so can be enjoyed by anyone, anywhere (as long as their player is able to read and play NTSC system).
If you can watch it without laughing, and without feeling that you really need a fine bowl of Ramen, then you would need to be insensitive to the subject matter, the vivid atmospheres portrayed, the somewhat bizarre construction, and the engaging characters. A fine thing to be savoured, even if not a grand heavyweight, classical masterpiece. A little like a fine bowl of Ramen.
Five stars for the film. One deducted for the basic nature of the product as sold.