Movie
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Overview
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
Details
- Release date
- 1952-10-01
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Shochiku
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Shin Saburi as Mokichi Satake
- Michiyo Kogure as Taeko Satake
- Koji Tsuruta as Noboru Okada
- Chikage Awashima as Aya Amamiya
- Keiko Tsushima as Setsuko Yamauchi
- Eijirō Yanagi as Yamauchi
- Kuniko Miyake as Chizu Yamauchi
- Kōji Shitara as Koji Yamauchi
- Chishū Ryū as Sadao Hirayama
- Yūko Mochizuki as Shige
- Hisao Toake as Toichiro Amamiya
- Yōko Kozono as Fumi
Crew
- Yasujirō Ozu - Director
- Kōgo Noda - Screenplay
- Yasujirō Ozu - Screenplay
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