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Rating: 7.5 stars

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The Taste of Tea (2004)

Directed by Katsuhito Ishii

Comedy | Fantasy

Overview

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

Length 143 minutes

Actors

Maya Banno | Takahiro Sato | Tadanobu Asano | Satomi Tezuka | Tatsuya Gashûin | Tomokazu Miura | Anna Tsuchiya | Tomoko Nakajima | Ikki Todoroki | Kirin Kiki | Kaiji Moriyama | Ryo Kase | Kenji Mizuhashi | Hideaki Anno | Yoshinori Okada | Susumu Terajima | Shinji Takeda | Emi Wakui | Tsuyoshi Kusanagi | Saki Aibu | Keisuke Horibe | Yuka Nomura | Yoji Tanaka | Shunichiro Miki | Machiko Ono | Kenichi Matsuyama | Issey Takahashi | Ryu Morioka | Kotaro Shiga | Yoshiyuki Morishita | Hiroshi Kuze | Eiko Sakurai | Seiji Tanaka | Taketeru Murata | Daigaku Sekine | Rinko Kikuchi

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Another OOP title sitting on the shelf at my library. Wonder what would happen it I never returned it (reported it lost). Surely they wouldn’t replace it. Credit Josh Hurtado for this revisit.

This movie could use a new scan updated release on Blu.

Really dig Asano Tadanobu in this. Back when he was always taking on interesting roles.

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