Originally Posted by
Pickles
A bit of an oldie but certainly a masterpiece, is "Tampopo." "A Taxing Woman" is another good one, as is "The Funeral (Ososhiki)."
Tampopo gets a huge thumbs up by me. Alas my old VHS video died its death years ago and the film still hasn't been released on DVD.
Wonderful film! Bloody difficult to get hold of though...

(EDIT - I'm delighted to be contradicted here - please see post #13)
MrLapLap prefers the Japanese film
Black Rain (unfortunately he recorded it on VHS on Long Play - it's under the bed right now) nothing to do with Tokyo though...