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The Taste of Tea
Why this pick
Its gently surreal family memories and tactile Japanese imagery echo Millennium Actress’s ability to make inner life feel cinematic, while moving with a warmer, more everyday rhythm.
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MOVIE2001 1h 27m JPN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film opens with a woman leaving to embark on a spaceship from the moon to Earth. An earthquake occurs and it is revealed that this is simply a scene from a movie being played out on a television. Genya Tachibana, a TV interviewer, and his cameraman Kyoji Ida head off to a new job: Ginei Studios, a prestigious but bankrupt movie studio being torn down, and its best known star Chiyoko Fujiwara has agreed to do a rare career retrospective interview. When they meet, Genya gives her a key he believes she lost at the studio, which causes Chiyoko to reflect on her career. As she's telling her life story, Genya and Kyoji are drawn in, literally, to Chiyoko's past, as they are blended into various scenes that concurrently reflect Chiyoko's filmography and life story at once.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Shozo Iizuka
Genya Tachibana (voice)
Masaya Onosaka
Kyouji Ida (voice)
Masane Tsukayama
The Man with the Scar (voice)
Hisako Kyouda
Chiyoko's Mother (voice)
Tomie Kataoka
Mino (voice)
Mami Koyama
Chiyoko Fujiwara (age 20-40, voice)
Fumiko Orikasa
Chiyoko Fujiwara (age 10-20, voice)