Tampopo and Varieties of Culinary Nationalism

[@ramy701]

Hello dear Areveny, I stumbled across your videos 20 minutes ago and I can already see myself falling in love with your content. Thank you !!

[@kanyambu7874]

As an african,i love films that showcase other people's culture.It's through such ,we see places we never heard any idea existed and may even decide to visit them to experience the culture first hand. Good work👏

[@a-love-supreme]

this is such a cool analysis! great video!

[@windgemini66]

interesting, never heard of this film

[@OtakuBox]

Jeez, it's been like, 4 ish years since I last saw Tampopo, let alone thought about it. Makes me really want to revisit that time where I watched a bunch of Japanese live action film. At the time I think the biggest part of the film for me was the Western food representation and the idolization of the West as you noted, but the dissections of Japanese/Chinese cuisine was really apt and interesting, especially because there was so much blending and muddling of what one would expect like with domesticity. Watching this made me think about all the food related shows I've seen, Sweetness and Lightning, Restaurant to Another World, Poco's Udon World, hell even Koufuku Grafiti, and the way food is used in their context. There's probably at least some level of cultural analysis in something like Restaurant, but I've never really considered it until now, it's quite an interesting lens to think about, so thanks for making this.

[@Cybernaut551]

"It's better to be a wise vagabond than a rich fool." -- Itami That's my thoughts exactly but I couldn't summarise it better.

[@angryguythatedits]

Nice work on the riffs!

[@igkewg]

Will you still make KZbin videos?

[@Areveny]

Perhaps! I have thought of it. I may give it another try.

[@haruzanfuucha]

I always found this movie to be pretty racist with its portrayals of Chinese people and culture, and how it treats the Japanese appropriation of Chinese culture as "improving" it when nativized and molded with Western influences.