Classic
Yasujirô Ozu
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (1952)
Credits
- Regie
- Yasujirô Ozu
- Cast
- Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Kôji Tsuruta
- Genre
- drama
- Speelduur
- 115 minuten
- Land
- Japan
- Taal
- Japans
- Ondertiteling
- Engels
Storyline
1950s Tokyo. Taeko and Mokichi’s long marriage is currently in crisis which exposes the major differences between them. Mokichi is a businessman from a working-class, provincial background and has ditto wishes and preferences. He likes smoking cheap cigarettes and his favourite dish is ochazuke (green tea over rice).
The Depth of Simplicity
This video essay explores the aesthetic and narrative motifs that recur across Ozu’s extensive body of work, by The Cinema Cartography.