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Rating: 7.5 stars

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All movies seen on 03/29/2009

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The Taste of Tea (2004)

Directed by Katsuhito Ishii

Comedy | Drama

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

This will not appeal to everyone’s tastes even those who generally appreciate Japanese film. And it’s not the easiest film to describe (like trying to describe Survive Style 5+) but I liked the atypical structure and surreal aspects as well as Tadanobu Asano’s supporting role, natch. Tatsuya Gashuin again steals every scene he’s in with one comedic moment after another. Definitely weird definitely unique. Wish Anna Tsuchiya was given more to do here.

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