TAMPOPO

DAILY (except FRI 10/21 & 28, SUN 10/23 & 30, TUE 10/25)12:30 2:45 5:20 7:35 9:50FRI, OCT 21 12:30 2:45 5:20 7:35* 10:15SUN, OCT 23 & 30 2:00 4:15 6:30 8:45TUE, OCT 25 12:30 9:15FRI, OCT 28 12:30 2:45 7:40 10:00

Friday, October 21 - Thursday, November 3

Alliance Members can enjoy a discount when attending screenings on Monday October 24th or Tuesday October 25th! Just mention that you are an Asian American Arts Alliance member!

(1985) “Don’t crumple those snack wraps!” In an eiga-kan (moviehouse), dapperly white-clad yakuzaKôji Yakusho forcefully points out to a hapless audience member and – speaking directly to the screen – us, that he doesn’t like his screenings interrupted. That said, Shane-like truck driver Tsutomu Yamazaki (the kidnapper in Kurosawa’s High and Low and the veteran mortician of Departures) and his sidekick, a very young Ken Watanabe (late of Broadway’s King and I revival), are trapped by a downpour in Nobuko Miyamoto’s (real-life wife of director Itami) ramen joint – but all Yamazaki winds up with is a knuckle sandwich when opinions differ on the quality of her fare. Itami’s “Noodle Western” is an exploding piñataof gags on man’s two eternal favorites – food and sex – as Miyamoto’s Tampopo (literally, “Dandelion”) embarks on a relentless quest in search of the perfect noodle, with plenty of room for tangents on how to cook a delicious rice omelet before the night watchman comes in; how to enhance bedroom delights with a raw egg; and how dreams of yam sausage can assuage the after effects of a bullet fusillade. Don’t see this on an empty stomach. Restored in 4K from the original camera negative. Approx. 114 mins.