'Tampopo'

A very sweet and satisfying film if you enjoy cooking and food. Especially Japanese cooking and food.

Tampopo is a young single mother trying to get her noodle eatery up and going. Goro and Gun, two truck drivers, decide to stop at Tampopo's restaurant for lunch. They find her noodles unsatisfactory.

Thus begins the transition of Tampopo's cooking and her restaurant into the best noodles in Japan. She toils and tries new ingredients. She meets up with a homeless band of former French chefs.

The beauty of the film are in the sub-plots and vignettes. The gangster and his lover starring in one of the most outrageous sex scenes with food. The mother cooking the meal and dropping dead only to have the family to keep eating. The lowly executive showing off his knowledge of fine cuisine in front of the more experienced board members.

It's a really fine film. Funny and heart warming. If some American director hasn't done it, someone will.