Released 1986
Stars Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Koji Yakusho
Directed by Juzo Itami

 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 who terrorizes a shopkeeper with compulsive squeezing of his wares.

Summary written by Reid Gagle.