TAMPOPO: In Juzo Itami's "ramen western," two Japanese milk-truck drivers (Tsutomu Yamazaki & Ken Watanabe) help a restaurant owner (Nobuko Miyamoto) learn how to cook great noodles.
"Like the French comedies of Jacques Tati, it's a bemused meditation on human nature in which one humorous situation flows into another offhandedly, as if life were a series of smiles." - Roger Ebert
This Movie Madness Film Club screening will include a brief introduction and optional post-film discussion.