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One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely 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 bumps up against the husband’s small-town simplicity, and a generational sea change—in the form of her headstrong, modern niece—sweeps over their household. The director’s abiding concern with family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humor and buoyant expansiveness that moves the action from the home into the baseball stadiums, pachinko parlors, and ramen shops of postwar Tokyo.
Original Release
10/01/1952
US Release
11/20/1964
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Shin Saburi | Mokichi Satake |
Michiyo Kogure | Taeko Satake |
Koji Tsuruta | Non-chan / Noboru Okada |
Chishû Ryû | Sadao Hirayama |
Chikage Awashima | Aya Amamiya |
Keiko Tsushima | Setsuko Yamauchi |
Kuniko Miyake | Chizu Yamauchi |
Eijirô Yanagi | Naosuke Yamauchi / Yamauchi |
Hisao Toake | Toichiro Amamiya |
Yûko Mochizuki | Shige Hirayama / Shige |
Directors
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Shin Saburi | Mokichi Satake |
Michiyo Kogure | Taeko Satake |
Koji Tsuruta | Non-chan / Noboru Okada |
Chishû Ryû | Sadao Hirayama |
Chikage Awashima | Aya Amamiya |
Keiko Tsushima | Setsuko Yamauchi |
Kuniko Miyake | Chizu Yamauchi |
Eijirô Yanagi | Naosuke Yamauchi / Yamauchi |
Hisao Toake | Toichiro Amamiya |
Yûko Mochizuki | Shige Hirayama / Shige |
Kôji Shitara | Koji Yamauchi |
Matsuko Shiga | Toichiro's mistress |
Yôko Kosono | Fumi |
Kinichi Ishikawa | Company President |
Yoko Osakura | Kuroda Takako (as Yoko Uehara) |
Etsuko Miyama | Echo Bar Girl |
Noriko Hinatsu | Shopgirl |
Mie Kitahara | Waitress |
Tami Yamamoto | Yone |
Eiko Yamada | Maid |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Takeshi Yamamoto | Producer |