food on film Archives - cléo https://cleojournal.com/tag/food-on-film/ a journal of film and feminism Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:44:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Bad Eggs: Juzo Itami’s Tampopo https://cleojournal.com/2014/04/24/bad-eggs-juzo-itamis-tampopo/ Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:53:29 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=755 “The first ramen western!” proclaims the tagline of Juzo Itami’s 1985 food comedy Tampopo. Here, instead of the lonesome cowboy wanderer and his sidekick of the traditional western, we get a pair of Japanese truck drivers: the rugged Tsutomu Yamazaki as Goro and a baby-faced Ken Wantanabe as Gun. They breeze into town for a […]

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