Anna Tsuchiya,
Diane Ackerman,
Ikki Todoroki,
Maya Banno,
Satomi Tezuka
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A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 20, 2007
Stats: 89 reviews
Very enjoyable, I'm a sucker for weird Japanese movies with weird characters; the old gramps was hilarious n_n
I liked the surrealistic edge. I'm glad I finally got to see it!
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Contrary to those Oscar-heralded pieces of garbage, this is a movie that doesn't structure its characters into the confines of a narrative pie chart and doesn't treat these individual experiences as manipulated moments for the audience to laugh at, but as a collective recollectio...( read more)
Rare is the movie that manages to be wonderful despite being incredibly convoluted and about half an hour longer than it should. The Taste of Tea is a wonderful exception. Yeah, it meanders aimlessly between more characters than you can shake a stick at, but it's so unabas...( read more)
The taste of tea was a movie that after watching the first part I wanted to close it down, mostly because it was too slow. I was hoping for something to take place, but nothing. There was no story. The images were very nice filmed but could not bring me pleasure in finishing the ...( read more)
Great... I really like Tatsuya Gashuin.
And I think that I used to be that kind of child in "The taste of tea". Quiet, and half be in the world of dream.
A lovely portrait of an unusual Japanese family living in the country. It will make you love the smaller things of life and enjoy the moment. The cast is awesome from the small Maya Banno to the lovely Tadanobu Asano, who never seems to deceive me. Be prepared to some weird momen...( read more)
Trains and tea son muy importante.
Never laughed so hard at a poo on top of a human skull joke before.
animation connection circle connection
mountains deserve their own song
and GO.
Okay, this is going to sound like a rant, but I actually thought this movie was alright. I just have a couple of issues with it.
People are always heaping praise all over this movie and basically calling it the epitome of light-hearted, quirky, touching, deep, whatever. And then...( read more)
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