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Directed by | Juzo Itami |
Screenplay by | Juzo Itami |
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Cinematography | Masaki Tamura[1] |
Edited by | Akira Suzuki[1] |
Music by | Kunihiko Murai[1] |
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Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 115 minutes[1] |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Tampopo (タンポポ, Tanpopo, literally "dandelion") 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.