--- title: 'The Taste of Tea (2004)' type: 'film' director: 'Katsuhito Ishii' released: '2004-01-01' runtime_minutes: 124 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Comedy' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-taste-of-tea-2004' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413893/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Taste of Tea (2004) 2004 · 124 min · Drama, Comedy · Japan Original title: 茶の味 ## Synopsis The Taste of Tea is a 2004 Japanese comedy drama fantasy film written and directed by Katsuhito Ishii. Described as a "surreal" version of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (1982), it follows the daily lives of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Main influences for the director were the magical realism of Nobuhiko Obayashi, the unexpected humor of Takeshi Kitano, the eccentric surrealism of Seijun Suzuki and the daily life medium-class stories of Yasujiro Ozu. It was a selection of the Cannes Film Festival. ## Credits - **Director:** [Katsuhito Ishii](https://cinepixo.com/people/katsuhito-ishii) - **Screenplay:** [Katsuhito Ishii](https://cinepixo.com/people/katsuhito-ishii) - **Editor:** [Katsuhito Ishii](https://cinepixo.com/people/katsuhito-ishii) - **Original Music Composer:** [LITTLE TEMPO](https://cinepixo.com/people/little-tempo) - **Producer:** [Kazutoshi Wadakura](https://cinepixo.com/people/kazutoshi-wadakura) - **Director of Photography:** [Kōsuke Matsushima](https://cinepixo.com/people/kosuke-matsushima) ## Cast - [Kenichi Matsuyama](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenichi-matsuyama) - [Hideaki Anno](https://cinepixo.com/people/hideaki-anno) - [Tomoko Nakajima](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomoko-nakajima) - [Anna Tsuchiya](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-tsuchiya) - [Tadanobu Asano](https://cinepixo.com/people/tadanobu-asano) - [Rinko Kikuchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/rinko-kikuchi) - [Ryō Kase](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryo-kase) - [Tomokazu Miura](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomokazu-miura) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://ttt-movie.com/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-taste-of-tea-2004 Film facts: Wikidata (Q472012); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.