Tampopo

“And this is Tampopo, which is my father's favorite film of all time. When we were kids, he would say, 'So tonight are we going to watch Tampopo?' and me and my brother are like 9 and 12 and we're like, 'We don't want to watch a Japanese ramen comedy, Dad.' About 10 years ago, I finally bit the bullet and I watched Tampopo and I realized that my dad had incredible taste. One of my favorite scenes in cinema history of an egg yolk being passed back and forth between two lovers.”

“Tampopo is one of the movies that… well, for me shared the gift of cinema, in terms of what movies can do, what they can be. It’s a food comedy, drama, love story, entrepreneurial journey. But this will make people fall in love who kind of don’t know what cinema– or, you know, they might wonder what cinema is: is it stuffy, something stuffy? This is not stuffy. This is very exciting.”

“[Translated] Today I'm very happy to pick this movie. This is one of my favorite movies. On the surface, it's about ramen, but it's actually about the warmest and most beautiful things in the human heart. This is one of my favorite movies. I rewatch it every few years. I once fantasized about making a movie like this.”