Directed by:
Yasujirô OzuCinematography:
Yûharu AtsutaComposer:
Ichirô SaitôCast:
Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, 鶴田浩二, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Tsushima, Kuniko Miyake, Yūko Mochizuki, Yoko Kozono, Mie KitaharaVOD (1)
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One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a subtly piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife’s city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband’s small-town simplicity, and a generational sea change—in the form of their headstrong, modern niece—sweeps over their household. The director’s abiding concern with family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humor and buoyant expansiveness that moves the action from the home into the baseball stadiums, pachinko parlors, and ramen shops of postwar Tokyo. (Criterion)
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Shin Saburi
Japan
Best movies:
Equinox Flower (1958)
Late Autumn (1960)
The Castle of Sand (1974)
Michiyo Kogure
Japan
Best movies:
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
鶴田浩二
Japan
Best movies:
Chishû Ryû
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
The Human Bullet (1968)
Chikage Awashima
Japan
Best movies:
Children of Nagasaki (1983)
Early Summer (1951)
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Keiko Tsushima
Japan
Best movies:
Kuniko Miyake
Japan
Best movies:
Early Summer (1951)
Early Spring (1956)
Late Autumn (1960)
Yūko Mochizuki
Japan
Best movies:
Ballad of Narayama (1958)
The End of Summer (1961)
Red Lion (1969)
Yoko Kozono
Best movies:
Mie Kitahara
Japan
Best movies:
Crazed Fruit (1956)
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952)
I Am Waiting (1957)