The Taste Of Tea

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Families can be a little eccentric...
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 143 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
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
Trailer
Reversible sleeve with original release artwork

Video Tracks:
1.66:1 pillarboxed 1080p

Audio Tracks:
DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Japanese

Subtitle Tracks:
English

Directed By:
Katsuhito Ishii

Written By:

Starring:
Maya Banno
Takahiro Satô
Tadanobu Asano
Satomi Tezuka
Tatsuya Gashûin
Tomoko Nakajima
Ikki Todoroki
Tomokazu Miura
Anna Tsuchiya

Music From:
Tempo Little

Director of Photography:
Kosuke Matsushima

Editor:
Katsuhito Ishii

Costume Designer:
Ikuko Utsunomiya

Production Designer:
Yuji Tsuzuki

Producer:
Kazuto Takida
Kazutoshi Wadakura

Executive Producer:
Hilo Iizumi

Distributor:
Third Window Films

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