Tsutomu Yamazaki

You can find tickets and showtimes at tiff.net. Carol picked Tampopo, Juzo Itami's delirious 1985 art house smash starring Itami's wife and regular collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto, as Tampopo, a woman who wants to open a ramen shop in a Tokyo neighborhood that's already got several.

Tsutomu Yamazaki plays Goro, a truck driver and noodle expert who helps her make her establishment stand out.

But that's just one thread in Itami's elaborate menu of narrative dishes, and as you're about to hear, it's not even the one Carol first encountered.

This is Someone Else's Movie.