Rent The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
3.9 of 5 from 76 ratings
1h 56min
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- Synopsis:
Made the year before his career defining masterpiece, 'Tokyo Story', 'The 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. - Actors:
- Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kôji Tsuruta, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Tsushima, Kuniko Miyake, Eijirô Yanagi, Hisao Toake, Yûko Mochizuki, Kôji Shitara, Matsuko Shiga, Yôko Kosono, Kinichi Ishikawa, Yoko Osakura, Etsuko Miyama, Noriko Hinatsu, Mie Kitahara, Tami Yamamoto, Eiko Yamada
- Directors:
- Yasujirô Ozu
- Producers:
- Takeshi Yamamoto
- Writers:
- Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu
- Aka:
- Ochazuke no aji / Tea Over Rice
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- All the Twos: 1902-62, Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 1, The Instant Expert's Guide to Yasujiro Ozu
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 18/05/2020
- Run Time:
- 116 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Feature-length audio commentary by critic and Asian-cinema expert Tony Rayns
- Alternative unrestored audio track
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Reviews (1) of The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice
Not up to me - The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice review by MT
This is like commenting on Dickens or Picasso - it says more about me than about Ozu. Having written that I was impressed - we had kind of added this to the list by mistake, thinking it was a recent film and when it turned up I realised how little I knew about classic Japanese film. I often get annoyed with “old” films - Hitchcock etc - why are they talking and doing things weirdly? - perhaps it was helped by the fact this was a “foreign” culture but I spent the whole time being interested and entertained instead of reminded that the film was seventy years old. I’ve already some more Ozu to my list.
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