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.

• New Century Producers
• Itami Productions
• Tsutomu Yamazaki
• Nobuko Miyamoto
• Ken Watanabe
• Koji Yakusho
• Rikiya Yasuoka
• Kinzō Sakura
• Hyōe Enoki
• Gō Awazu