The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
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.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- What Did the Lady Forget?, a 1937 feature by Yasujiro Ozu
- New video essay by film scholar David Bordwell
- Ozu & Noda, a new documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu’s longtime collaboration with screenwriter Kogo Noda
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Junji Yoshida
New cover by Katherine Lam
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- What Did the Lady Forget?, a 1937 feature by Yasujiro Ozu
- New video essay by film scholar David Bordwell
- Ozu & Noda, a new documentary by Daniel Raim on Ozu’s longtime collaboration with screenwriter Kogo Noda
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Junji Yoshida
New cover by Katherine Lam
Cast
- Shin Saburi
- Mokichi Satake
- Michiyo Kogure
- Taeko
- Koji Tsuruta
- Noboru
- Chishu Ryu
- Sadao Hirayama
- Chikage Awashima
- Aya Amamiya
- Keiko Tsushima
- Setsuko
Credits
- Director
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Script
- Kogo Noda
- Script
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Cinematography
- Yuharu Atsuta
- Art direction
- Tatsuo Hamada
- Lighting
- Itsuo Takashita
- Editing
- Yoshiyasu Hamamura
- Music
- Ichiro Saito
