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Taste Of Tea, The (cha no aji chanoaji)

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Publisher : BTW
Audio : Japanese (Dolby Digital)
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : English
Release Year : 2004
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(Synopsis) Cha no Aji (The Taste of Tea,) is written, edited, and directed by famed director Ishii Katsuhito, whose previous two features (Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, Party 7) were celebrated for their oddball, Quentino Tarantino-esque gangster ensembles. For Cha no Aji, Ishii recruits veteran actors Asano Tadanobu (who appeared in both of Ishii's previous features) and Miura Tomokazu for a touching, odd, beautiful, but sad family comedy - a definite departure from his previous films. Cha no Ajiwas selected for screening at 2004's Cannes Film Festival, and won Best Feature at the 2004 Hawaii International Film Festival!

Cha no Aji represents Ishii's first screenplay, and its style is in strong contrast to his previous work. In this comedy, he explores the dysfunctional qualities of an average family. A family of five, consisting of father, mother, teenage son, young daughter and grandfather, live together in a small village north of Tokyo. When the children's uncle from the city (Asano Tandanobu) moves in, all hell breaks loose. Grandfather Oji (Tatsuya Gashuin) is an odd-tempered eccentric, mother Yoshiko (Satomi Tezuka) wants to return to her previous job as a table cartoon illustrator, and father Noubo is a hypno-therapist who works at home. The son Hajime (Takahiro Sato) is indulging in a teenage fantasy of falling for a beautiful girl at a school, and younger daughter Sachiko also has growing pains...

Director
Katsuhito Ishii

Cast
Anna Tsuchiya
Emi Wakui
Hideaki Anno
Ikki Todoroki
Kirin Kin
Maya Banno
Satomi Tezuka
Shinji Takeda
Susumu Terajima
Tadanobu Asano
Takahiro Sato
Tatsuya Gashuin
Tomokazu Miura
Tomoko Nakajima
Yoshinori Okada

Publisher : BTW
Audio : Japanese (Dolby Digital)
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : English
Release Year : 2004