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The Taste of Tea is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Katsuhito Ishii released in USA on 11 november 2004 with Tadanobu Asano

The Taste of Tea (2004)

Cha no aji

The Taste of Tea
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Released in USA 11 november 2004
Length 2h23
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating75% 3.797183.797183.797183.797183.79718

The Taste of Tea (茶の味, Cha no Aji) is the third film by Japanese writer and director Katsuhito Ishii. The film has been referred to as a "surreal" version of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. It was a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

Synopsis

The film is concerned with the lives of the Haruno family, who live in rural Tochigi Prefecture, the countryside north of Tokyo. Nobuo is a hypnotherapist. He teaches his son, Hajime, Go. Hajime becomes an excellent Go player, but he has a rough time with girls and puberty. Yoshiko refuses to be an average housewife and works on animated film projects at home. She uses assistance from grandfather Akira, an eccentric old man who is a former animator and occasional model.

Actors

Tadanobu Asano

(Ayano Haruno)
Tomokazu Miura

(Nobuo Haruno)
Anna Tsuchiya

(Aoi Suzuishi)
Rinko Kikuchi

(Waitress At Noodle Shop)
Tomoko Nakajima

(Akira Terako)
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