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The Taste of Tea
Why this pick
Shares Survive Style 5+'s playfully surreal Japanese suburban world, deadpan oddities and interconnected family rhythms, but with a gentler, dreamlike warmth.
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MOVIE2004 2h 0m JPN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film follows five simultaneous, loosely linked plot lines, that intertwine and scramble together. A man (Tadanobu Asano) keeps killing his wife (Reika Hashimoto) and burying her in the woods only to find her alive, furious, and waiting for him when he returns home. A suburban family's life is disrupted when the father (Ittoku Kishibe) is permanently hypnotized into believing he is a bird and tries to learn how to fly. A trio of aimless youth pass time by burgling houses. A murderous advertising executive (Kyōko Koizumi) tries to imagine ideas for commercials. The stories clash together through the intervention of a thuggish hitman (Vinnie Jones) and his translator (Yoshiyoshi Arakawa).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kanji Tsuda
Tsuda - Burglar
Ryuunosuke Kamiki
Seiichi Kobayashi
Pierre Taki
Cop
Yuka Itaya
Kazama's secretary
Kotaro Shiga
taxi driver
Kyoko Koizumi
Yoko, Commercial Executive
Yumi Aso
Misa, Kobayashi's wife
Tadanobu Asano
Aman