Tampopo (Dandelion) (1985)

"Tampopo" was a popular film production in his country, Japan, but it has also been criticized for excessive wrapping western, like the West. After seeing this isn't the feeling I have left the movie. But for his pace, lighter than usual, I think a movie perfectly identifiable with japanese culture, starting because all argues for the country kitchen of the rising sun and the development of one of their dishes, noodles (ramen).

In the movie there is a main plot sprinkled with subplots, small and all of them interesting short stories, that revolve around the art of good eating. At no time "Tampopo" vision becomes cumbersome or boring, always refreshing, at times challenging and always enjoyable, fun.

Another curious feature to consider is the personality of its main interpreter, wearing a cowboy hat, and the first sequence where, certainly, its atmosphere and the individuals that people make us feel closer to a typical "saloon" of Far West that of a typical family japanese restaurant. This aesthetic is repeated at the end of the film with the (gunman) Goro away on his horse/truck on the horizon and composing a genre classic western.

7/10