The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
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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.
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
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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
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