October 23, 2008
Cinema Center
437 E Berry St
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 Reception (Japanese Beer & Wine; Appetizers)
7:00 - 9:00 Film Viewing
Tickets are on sale now and cost $20
Please contact NoelK@JapanInFortWayne.com
If you love movies and food, then there's a good chance you will enjoy Tampopo, which many consider to be one of the greatest food movies ever made.
Tampopo is a celebration of the role of food in Japanese culture. It has been acclaimed as the first "noodle western" for it's delightful parody of American westerns and Japanese samurai films.
In this Japanese movie, the main plotline follows a cowboy hat wearing truck driver who decides to help a beautiful widowed restaurant owner to transform her dying business into the best ramen house in the city. Short vignettes celebrating food in a variety of humorous, and sometimes bizarre, ways are sprinkled throughout the movie.
As a bonus, Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Batman Begins) plays a young man who learns the proper way to eat ramen from a venerable master.
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