A warm, madcap comedy mediating on the perfect bowl of noodles, Tampopo is a food porn, a ramen western, a world where sex, death, and hunger are always inseparable. Egg yolks pass between lovers’ lips, prawns drown in cognac on a bare stomach, and at each turn the wild and deviant are celebrated for choosing to eat, and to live, in a manner that breaks with societal norms—for embracing their appetites, odd as they may be, in their delicious totality.