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The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice

Influential Japanese auteur Yasujiro Ozu was the master of subtle elegant films that pack a bittersweet emotional punch. Made during his prime in the early 1950s, this keenly perceptive relationship drama is the study of a man and woman whose marriage is hanging by a thread. She is tired of his stick-in-the-mud ways, their dull, predictable existence; he chafes at her Western pretensions. Maybe it's time for a change. Also a frank look at the practise of arranged marriage, Ozu originally wrote the story in 1940 but was forbidden by the military to make it.

Year: 1952
Genre: Classic Drama, Japanese Cinema, International Showcase, Classic Cinema
Country: Japan
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Koji Tsurata, Chikage Awashima
Duration: 116 Minutes
Rating: G
Subtitles: Yes
Location in store: Foreign (Japan)

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