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 KitaharaPlots(1)
Made the year before his career defining masterpiece, Tokyo Story, Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice is one of Yasujiro Ozu's most beautiful domestic sagas, 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 clashes with the husband's small town simplicity, and a generational sea change in the form of their headstrong, modern niece sweeps over their household. Ozu's expert grasp of family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humour and an expansiveness that moves the action from the home, to the baseball stadiums and the shops of post-war Tokyo. (British Film Institute (BFI))
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Shin Saburi
Japan
Best movies:
Late Autumn (1960)
Equinox Flower (1958)
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)