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Except by Juzo Itami, a filmmaker to whom obsession is character, the source of everything that is interesting and wacko in human behavior. In last year's Tampopo he genially satirized the spiritual contortions people will undergo when gripped by a fervor for haute cuisine. In A Taxing Woman his subjects are relentless greed and implacable righteousness, and his mood is, appropriately, much darker...
TAMPOPO An Eastern western: the cowboy is a truck driver, his homestead is a Japanese noodle restaurant. Writer-Director Juzo Itami offers a free-range meditation on how gourmet fads deliriously distort man's second favorite drive...
Directed by Juzo Itami...
...movie where the entire audience stayed to watch all the credits roll by? Well, after Tampopo--the self-proclaimed "first Japanese noodle western"--the audience savored the movie to the last "drop" of credits. Considering that the credits were in Japanese, this is a tribute to Japanese, director Juzo Itami's latest film, a deliciously delirious and hilarious feast for the eyes and ears...
...survive without the army's approval. Political genius was therefore closely allied to military genius, and the soldier with genius or capacity in both fields was all the more necessary to the army. Itagaki therefore had to take no insult when his closest friend and associate, General Juzo Nishio, said: "I'll do the fighting. Let Itagaki do the office work...