The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
1952 · Movie · 116 min · ★ 7.5 · 88% critics
An arranged marriage between a refined city woman and her plain, quiet husband begins to crack under everyday frustrations. As family pressure around another possible match stirs old doubts, the couple is pushed to reconsider what companionship, respect, and shared life really mean.
Also known as Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice · Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
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Details
- Original title
- お茶漬けの味
- Years
- 1952
- Release date
- 1952-10-01
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Critic score
- 88/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (102 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy quiet relationship dramas about marriage, tradition, and everyday emotions, especially if Early Summer or Late Spring worked for you; Not for you if you need fast plots or big dramatic turns.
Pros: touching marital drama; gentle humor; thoughtful look at tradition | Cons: very slow pace; thin subplot; wife can grate
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- marriage crisis
- arranged marriage
- lie
- aunt niece relationship
- tokyo, japan
- niece
- generation gap
- marital tensions
- shōwa era (1926-89)
- japanese tradition
- girls night out
Cast & crew
Shin Saburi
as Mokichi Satake
Michiyo Kogure
as Taeko Satake
Koji Tsuruta
as Noboru Okada
Chikage Awashima
as Aya Amamiya
Keiko Tsushima
as Setsuko Yamauchi
Eijirō Yanagi
as Yamauchi
Kuniko Miyake
as Chizu Yamauchi
Kōji Shitara
as Koji Yamauchi
Chishū Ryū
as Sadao Hirayama
Yūko Mochizuki
as Shige
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu