The Taste of Tea (blu ray)
The Taste of Tea (blu ray)
SKU:TWFBD053
Starring Tadanobu Asano (ICHI THE KILLER, GEMINI).
Filmmaker Katsuhito Ishii takes a break from the post-Tarantino excess of such highly-stylized outings as Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl for this low-key look at an eccentric family residing in a quiet countryside town just north of Tokyo.
The Haruno family is a five-piece clan living the simple life in Japan. The summer sun shining gently down, this quiet quintet is transformed into a six-piece when urban-dwelling uncle Ayano (Tadanobu Asano), a successful music producer, arrives to visit his family and confront his feelings for the ex-girlfriend who married another man after Ayano moved to the city.
As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.
Special Features:
- 90 minute Making Of
- ‘Super Big’ animation
- Reversible sleeve with original release artwork
- (note: special features are in Standard Definition)
Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Cast: Maya Banno, Tadanobu Asano, Takahiro Sato, Tomokazu Miura
Genre: Comedy, Surreal Comedy
Language: Japanese (with English subtitles)
Country: Japan
Year: 2003
Runtime: 143 minutes
Region: B