The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea (茶の味 Cha no Aji)
The Taste of Tea poster
Directed by	Katsuhito Ishii
Produced by	Kazuto Takida Kazutoshi Wadakura
Written by	Katsuhito Ishii
Starring	Tadanobu Asano Takahiro Sato Maya Banno Satomi Tezuka Tomokazu Miura Tatsuya Gashuin Anna Tsuchiya Rinko Kikuchi
Music by	Little Tempo
Cinematography	Kosuke Matushima
Editing by	Katsuhito Ishii
Distributed by	Grasshoppa (Japan) Viz Media (USA)
Release date(s)	July 17, 2004
Running time	143 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
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The Taste of Tea (茶の味, Cha no Aji^?) is the third film by Japanese writer and director Katsuhito Ishii. The film is concerned with the lives of the Haruno family, who live in the countryside north of Tokyo. It has been referred to as a "surreal" version of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. It was a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

[edit] The Haruno Family

The Father, Nobuo: A hypnotherapist who occasionally hypnotizes his family for fun, and is teaching his son Go.
The Mother, Yoshiko: An animator.
The Son, Hajime: who is having a rough time with girls and puberty, but is an excellent Go player.
The Daughter, Sachiko: who is being followed by a giant duplicate of herself and searches for ways to rid herself of it.
The Uncle, Ayano: A sound engineer and record producer.
The Grandfather, Akira: an eccentric old man, former animator and occasional model for Yoshiko's animation.