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Katsuhito Ishii (writer)
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20 April 2005 (France)
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A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office...
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There is life in Tochigi.
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Maya Banno | ... | Sachiko Haruno - daughter | |
| Takahiro Sato | ... | Hajime Haruno - son | |
| Tadanobu Asano | ... | Ayano Haruno - uncle | |
| Satomi Tezuka | ... | Yoshiko Haruno - mother | |
| Tatsuya Gashuin | ... | Akira Todoroki - grandpa | |
| Tomoko Nakajima | ... | Akira Terako | |
| Ikki Todoroki | ... | Himself | |
| Tomokazu Miura | ... | Nobuo Haruno - father | |
| Anna Tsuchiya | ... | Aoi Suzuishi | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Saki Aibu | ... | Hotaru | |
| Hideaki Anno | ... | Kasugabe | |
| Keisuke Horibe | ... | Man in Noodle Shop | |
| Ryo Kase | ... | Rokutaro Hamadayama | |
| Rinko Kikuchi | (as Yuriko Kikuchi) | ||
| Kirin Kin | ... | Grandma | |
| Tsuyoshi Kusanagi | ... | Projectionist | |
| Ken'ichi Matsuyama | ... | Young Man in Red T-Shirt | |
| Shunichiro Miki | |||
| Kenji Mizuhashi | ... | Maki Hoshino | |
| Ryû Morioka | |||
| Yoshiyuki Morishita | |||
| Kaiji Moriyama | ... | Dancer | |
| Yûka Nomura | ... | Woman in Noodle Shop | |
| Yoshinori Okada | ... | Omiya | |
| Machiko Ono | ... | CM Teacher | |
| Daigaku Sekine | ... | Detective | |
| Kotaro Shiga | |||
| Issei Takahashi | ... | Chairman of Go Club | |
| Shinji Takeda | ... | CM Director | |
| Seiji Tanaka | ... | CM Director | |
| Yôji Tanaka | |||
| Susumu Terajima | ... | Tattooed Man | |
| Emi Wakui | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
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The Taste of Tea (International: English title)
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143 min | France:143 min (Cannes Film Festival) | Argentina:143 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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Just some information concerning director Katsuhito Ishii. Cha no Aji is his third feature, he's also an established music video and commercial director. Through his association with Grasshoppa, a production company in Tokyo launched over two years ago, he's also directed several short films, including works in animation. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on the anime sequence in Kill Bill vol.1. Cha no Aji shows how an urban family has made the move to the countryside, managing to keep an active, stimulating life, a theme explored by several young directors from Japan. Ishii succeeds in merging the traditional plots of the Japanese family drama with the creative eccentricity of Tokyo trends. Although indie star Tadanobu Asano has appeared in all of Ishii's films, the director's secret weapon is Tatsuya Gashuin, another Ishii regular, who plays the part of the grandfather, a former manga master. Why Katsuhito Ishii's films haven't released overseas remains a mystery...Nobody knows?