Director: Yasujirō Ozu
Cast: Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitō, Michiko Kuwano, Shūji Sano, Takeshi Sakamoto,
Plot: A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
Ozu Yasujiro’s The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952): Criterion Blu-ray review
Ozu Yasujiro’s melancholy social comedy The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952), which reflects major shifts in Japanese life in the post-war period, receives an excellent release from the Criterion […]