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Every Day a Good Day

Original title: Nichinichi kore kôjitsu
  • 2018
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
1.3K
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Kirin Kiki, Mikako Tabe, and Haru Kuroki in Every Day a Good Day (2018)
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Noriko is a university student. By her mother's recommendation, Noriko begins attending a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin Michiko. There, Noriko learns from Teacher Take... Read allNoriko is a university student. By her mother's recommendation, Noriko begins attending a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin Michiko. There, Noriko learns from Teacher Takeda. Noriko now has the Japanese tea ceremony in her life and it's there for her during mom... Read allNoriko is a university student. By her mother's recommendation, Noriko begins attending a Japanese tea ceremony near her house with her cousin Michiko. There, Noriko learns from Teacher Takeda. Noriko now has the Japanese tea ceremony in her life and it's there for her during moments when she is sad or happy.

  • Director
    • Tatsushi Ômori
  • Writers
    • Noriko Morishita
    • Tatsushi Ômori
  • Stars
    • Haru Kuroki
    • Kirin Kiki
    • Mikako Tabe
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    1.3K
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    • Director
      • Tatsushi Ômori
    • Writers
      • Noriko Morishita
      • Tatsushi Ômori
    • Stars
      • Haru Kuroki
      • Kirin Kiki
      • Mikako Tabe
    • 9User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Haru Kuroki
    Haru Kuroki
    • Noriko
    Kirin Kiki
    Kirin Kiki
    • Teacher Takeda
    Mikako Tabe
    Mikako Tabe
    • Michiko
    Mayu Harada
    • Tadokoro
    Saya Kawamura
    • Sanae
    Fuyuka Kooriyama
    • Noriko's Mother
    Chihiro Okamoto
    • Noriko's Brother
    Megumi Takizawa
    • Yumiko
    Shingo Tsurumi
    • Noriko's Father
    Mayu Tsuruta
    • Yukino
    Mizuki Yamashita
    • Hitomi
    • Director
      • Tatsushi Ômori
    • Writers
      • Noriko Morishita
      • Tatsushi Ômori
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    7flcntk3-856-986017

    Life is a bowl of green tea

    This is a movie in which life is a bowl of green tea. The Japanese tea ceremony becomes a philosophical and ritualistic approach to honor, to respect, to become harmonious and exacting as a mirrored counter part of the cyclical and seasonal changes in life where things are repetitive and yet imperceptibly different as time goes by. There is a moment in the film in which the camera seemingly detached itself from the story and zooms into the level of pulsating cells of a leaf. That out of context moment is exactly what this film is about. Life!
    8GyatsoLa

    The flavour of Green Tea....

    A lot of Japanese film makers make their 'Ozu' film, and thematically this certainly fits the Ozu mould, although perhaps wisely the film maker here doesn't try to copy the Ozu style.

    The film is quite simple - it follows a young woman as she finds meaning through her weekly saturday classes on the tea ceremony. Over the years she gradually comes to appreciate the deeper meaning behind the ceremony. And that really is it. But what could be a somewhat boring film is anything but - the lovely performances and nice pacing brings us into the lives of the women who love the ceremony and it becomes all very moving, and not a little enlightening.

    It is also, sadly, the last film by the great actress Kirin Kiki, but what a lovely last performance she gave us.
    8RaidersOfTheLostCommunist

    Sometimes life don't go your way

    Movie is basically about a girl who went to college, and like a lot of us had all these dreams and aspirations, but things don't go her way. She ends up taking a green tea class mostly because there isn't anything to do, and she eventually finds herself spending the next 20+ years learning it.

    She sees her friends move on in life, get married, but she has no luck.

    It is a heartwarming movie with a bittersweet ending.

    8/10.
    10saucy_design

    So beautiful. Deep with meaning, emotions and life lessons.

    This was so relaxing, peaceful a graceful, yet carried some strong messages. Beautifully executed and directed. I will probably watch this again. Maybe even more than once more.
    7Hombredelfuturo

    it takes time

    Yes; comprehend Life is such a difficult thing but sometimes you are lucky and at some point some one suggest or show a way to the right Teacher that helps yo find a Path. Little by little; takes time but is possible.

    -Great camera work and shots. At first glance is a simple non sense plot but after the first 1/3 you start to see the Complexity onto all that apparent simplicity. All the little things count. Somehow I ended with sadness but is worth to watch.

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      Lead character repeats the same exact words about the Italian movie La Strada (1954) again and again.
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      References La Strada (1954)

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    • Release date
      • October 13, 2018 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Official Site (Japan)
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • 日日是好日
    • Production companies
      • Happinet
      • Harvest Film
      • Yoake Pictures
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      • $9,956,464
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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