Tampopo

last watch of 2024 had to be a rewatch of one of my favourites i normally hold a bit of animosity towards western’s, as a genre it feels to be repetitive and reliant on its typical conventions, it’s just generally not for me. this film being a japanese western instead of your standard american one feels as though it allows room to play with conventions of the genre, it takes aspects of westerns and pokes fun at it. it doesn’t take itself seriously and allows itself to play with characters and different storylines even if they don’t weave into the main storyline. food porn to the highest degree. overall just such a fun watch, can’t recommend it enough happy new year !