Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice / Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1952)
3.6 of 5 from 8 ratings
3h 6min
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Regarded by critics and filmmakers alike as one of the world's greatest directors, Yasujiro Ozu has been praised for his deliberate and striking visual style. After his directorial debut in 1927 he went on to direct 55 films, before his death from cancer in 1963. Largely unappreciated during his lifetime, it is only relatively recently that Ozu has come to be considered as one the best filmmakers that the world has ever seen.
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) is an irresistible and touching tale of a young boy abandoned to poverty by his father, and the subsequent relationship that he has with Tane, a local widow who is begrudgingly given the task of looking after the boy.
Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) was made the year before Ozu's acknowledged masterpiece Tokyo Story and is a delicately observed tale of rekindled love which follows a couple who, bored with their existence in an arranged marriage, set about livening up their life together.- Actors:
- Chouko Iida, Hohi Aoki, Eitarô Ozawa, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Reikichi Kawamura, Hideko Mimura, Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kôji Tsuruta, Chishû Ryû, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Tsushima, Kuniko Miyake, Yûko Mochizuki, Matsuko Shiga, Kinichi Ishikawa, Etsuko Miyama, Yoko Osakura, Tami Yamamoto, Tomoka Hasebe
- Directors:
- Yasujirô Ozu
- Producers:
- Takeshi Yamamoto, Mitsuzô Kubo
- Writers:
- Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu, Tadao Ikeda
- Aka:
- Ochazuke no aj / Nagaya shinshiroku
- Studio:
- Tartan
- Genres:
- Drama
- Countries:
- Japan
