Tampopo: a filmic-gastronomic analysis

The objective of this work is to analyze a filmic text to understand the relationships between cinema and culture expressed in gastronomy and food. For this we will analyze from an empirical-analytical perspective the film Tampopo (1985) directed by Juzo Itami and that reflects the different categories in which the so-called gastronomic cinema is divided, as well as the use of examples from other films that can also be understood as gastronomic, in an attempt to understand if this genre really exists or simply the cinema has used gastronomy as a common thread and without a real intention to reflect the culture of a particular place in it ' s gastronomic forms.