The Taste of Tea
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- Runtime
- 143 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Maya Suzuno
- 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
Director
- Katsuhito Ishii
Producers
- Kazuto Takida
- Kazutoshi Wadakura