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Tampopo (1985)

Directed by Jūzō Itami · Cinematography by Masaki Tamura

114 min45 frames

Comedy

The first Japanese Noodle Western.

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Tampopo — official trailer

What is Tampopo about?

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Tampopo is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first "ramen Western", a play on the term spaghetti Western.

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What does the cinematography of Tampopo look like?

Across 45 sampled frames, Tampopo builds its coverage from medium shots (36% of the sample), with close-ups (31%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Masaki Tamura keeps 49% of it in soft, naturalistic light. 47% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 58% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Tampopo?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Tampopo (1985) are #32302e, #d3d0ca, #0b0a0a, #f7f7f6, #4f5250, #d1c7b0 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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  • #f7f7f6
  • #4f5250
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