[English subtitles available]The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (お茶漬けの味, Ochazuke no aji) is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu.Takeo, a capricious.. Tea Over Rice or The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (Japanese: お茶漬の味, Hepburn: Ochazuke no Aji) is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. [1] The screenplay concerns a wealthy middle-aged couple (played by Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure) who have marital difficulties, and their niece who uses the couple's troubles as her excuse for not attending arranged marriage interviews. [2]
Ochazuke no aji DVD cover. Movie (1952) Japanese title: お茶漬けの味 English titles: Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice/Tea and Rice/Tea Over Rice Starring: Shin Saburi (Mokichi Satake) Michiyo Kogure (Taeko Satake) Kôji Tsuruta (Non-chan / Noboru Okada) Chishû Ryû (Sadao Hirayama) Chikage Awashima (Aya Amamiya) Keiko Tsushima (Setsuko Yamauchi) Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high.. One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship between a childless, middle-aged couple as her city-bred sophistication bumps up against his small-town simplicity, and a generational.