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[jennifersmind]

Paris, Texas / Billy Elliot/ Mosquita y Mari/

Tompopo / La Misma Luna/ Amadeus/

Cuckoo / Ladyhawke/ Millennium Actress

🍿 My 9 favorite first watches of September 2024

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[uncloseted]

What are your favorite movies? ✨

My favorite live action movie is Before Sunrise and my favorite animated movie is The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl. A few others I really like are Amelie, Howl’s Moving Castle, Only Lovers Left Alive, Tompopo, and Chungking Express. I'm sure there are a few I'm missing, but those are at least some of them.

[shrokyo]

to talk more about food one of the best parts of dining in japan was how every dish was its own experience. whether it was taking part in the cooking of it yourself or the specific ritualistic ways things are meant to be eaten, every meal was a sort of performance.

i was so glad i ended up choosing tompopo for one of my pre departure works because this really connected for me after my time there. every time I ate ramen i would think about the respect shown by finishing ones bowl (as hard as this sometimes was due to the massive bowls served) and how slurping is actually a sign of respect and not a bad habit looked down upon like in the west.

hands down the part i miss most about my time in japan is the food. i dream about the noodles and dumplings I was so spoiled with right down the street. fort collins really needs to up their noodle game

[ramenhaven]

Tonkatsu Ramen at Tompopo in Manchester, England.

[chaotic-jjk-fiction]

10 & 22 for that ask game?

~Ask Game~

10. Any phobias?

I have a fear of open spaces and open water. Like survival instinct kicks in and I start getting kinda panicky that like I can’t defend myself and I have to be on the lookout for danger from all sides. 

22. Favorite movie?

I couldn’t really think of one, but here are a few I like:

War Of The Arrows

Tompopo

District Nine

And a lot more lol

[s9acex]

[random-film-bee]

Tampopo

Tampopo

This was a weird mixture of food, food ASMR, sex and crime mixed into one journey to improve a simple ramen shop. I gotta be honest, I don’t really know what to make of this film. I usually can contrive some sort of deeper meaning to things, but maybe Spring Break stole my brain cells because this was just a weird but interesting film to me. Mostly weird.

It starts with a fourth wall break and a foreshadowing of a characters death. (I don’t remember his name). The movie felt like I watched 1 movie but with like random clips from completely unrelated films randomly thrown in. The main story being the ramen shop and the owner along with the Indiana jones looking man. The side stories thrown in with the dead guy and his girlfriend, the guy who got arrested and the woman who died after cooking etc. The only things connecting them is food. The food is a streamlined constant element in almost every scene. Including sex scenes. (THIS CLASS HAS RUINED EGGS FOR ME BTW). Between this and the fact that he drives a milk truck and the movie ends with a baby drinking milk, I am sure there is some profound statement that I am just not seeing. Because all I got is food connects us all form birth to death but I don’t know what to do with that information.

I got weird Indiana Jones vibes from the film. I think it was just because of the hat and the music choices sometimes but it still felt weird thinking about Indiana Jones while watching a film about ramen. There was a lot of stealing though. The one dude faked being someone he wasn’t for free food and the main characters ran around stealing recipes and ideas throughout the entire movie. Once again, I don’t know what to do with that information, but I noticed it none the less.

There was one scene I really liked and that was when she finally got the ramen right, the curtains opened, and light flooded the room. Like heaven. It was pretty.

The idea of life and death was more prominent than I thought. What with the two deaths and all. Maybe the name Tompopo which is dandelion is to show the fleetingness of life, and how food is a constant in everyone’s life.

Also I thought Indiana Jones and Ramen lady were gonna get together and fall in love. I was upse when they didn’t. All the signs were there! They talked about their exes and how they’re single, he thought she looked pretty in her uniform, he bathed and saw her underwear. I guess I misread the vibes.

^like wasn’t this a date????^

This is definitely one of my worst blog posts, sorry. I just really don’t know what to say about this film. I do really want ramen though. Maybe that’s the greater message: eat good ramen, live a happy life, eventually die.

[the-places-we-cant-go]

Tompopo. A ramen western. It was good, sometimes weird. The end credits were even weirder. I got sucked in early and was quietly cheering on as they slurped to the last drop.

[mumbot]

Make a wish! #dandelionseeds #tompopo #dandelion #puff #タンポポ

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Sen, chihiro

[ramenhaven]

Kontotsu Ramen from Tompopo in Tempe, AZ