The Taste of Tea (2004)
A movie by Japanese writer and director Katsuhito Ishii
junho 18, 2022
By maryann
“If you have time to kill, watch The Taste of Tea.”
The Haruno family makes its way in a small town in rural Japan. Yoshiko (Satomi Tezuka) is an artist and her husband, Nobuo (Tomokazu Miura), is a hypnotherapist. Their son, Hajime (Maya Banno), has fallen in love with a girl at school. His younger sister, Sachiko (Takahiro Sato), is seeing bizarre visions, usually her own gigantic doppelganger following her through town, a specter she’s convinced will go away if only she can pull off a perfect backflip.
The movie has been referred to as a “surreal” version of Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander.