english title | Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice |
original title | Ochazuke no aji |
aka | La Saveur du thé vert et du riz |
french title | Le Goût du riz au thé vert |
year | 1952 |
country | Japan |
director | OZU Yasujiro - 小津 安二郎 | |
actor | SABURI Shin | Mokichi Satake |
KOGURE Michiyo | Taeko Satake | |
MOCHIZUKI Yuko | Shige | |
RYU Chishu - 笠智衆 | Sadao Hirayama | |
MIYAKE Kuniko | Chizu Yamauchi | |
YANAGI Eijiro | Yamauchi | |
AWASHIMA Chikage - 淡島千景 | Aya Amamiya | |
TSUSHIMA Keiko | Setsuko Yamauchi | |
TSURUTA Koji | Noboru Okada | |
scriptwriter | NODA Kogo | |
OZU Yasujiro - 小津 安二郎 | ||
editor | HAMAMURA Yoshiyasu | |
cinematographer | ATSUTA Yuharu |
genres | drama comedy |
duration | 1H55 |
THE FLAVOUR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE has one of the great film titles, even though it might also have appropriately been called CONTEMPT. Ozu set out to portray a man from the viewpoint of a woman, and produced this subtly painful comedy about a married couple drifting apart. He is a stolid, quiet country-bred businessman; she’s a city-bred snob bored with domestic life and scornful of her husband’s rustic ways (including his taste for the eponymous treat). When a favourite niece comes to visit, the unhappy couple is confronted with the possibility of reconciliation. "A classic Ozu"