Tampopo

Tampopo is a movie starring Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and Nobuko Miyamoto. A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes...
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.