The Taste Of Tea

Year: 2003Certificate: 15

Director:
Katsuhito Ishii
Cast:
Maya Banno, Tadanobu Asano, Takahiro Satô, Tomokazu Miura
Running Time:
143 mins
Language:
Japanese
English Subtitles:
Yes
Country of Origin:
Japan
Genre(s):
Comedy, Drama, Film
Formats:
Filmmaker Katsuhito Ishii takes a break from the post-Tarantino excess of such highly-stylized outings as Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl for this low-key look at an eccentric family residing in a quiet countryside town just north of Tokyo. The Haruno family is a five-piece clan living the simple life in Japan. The summer sun shining gently down, this quiet quintet is transformed into a six-piece when urban-dwelling uncle Ayano (Tadanobu Asano), a successful music producer, arrives to visit his family and confront his feelings for the ex-girlfriend who married another man after Ayano moved to the city. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

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