I was really worried about these two until they finally poured that green tea over the rice
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
お茶漬けの味
A critically acclaimed, moving drama.
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice is showing in 1 cinema in New York City - next screening Saturday 24 October at 12:50 at Metrograph.
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I was really worried about these two until they finally poured that green tea over the rice
(Re)finding love in the simple pleasures of life. What has been will always have happened but it doesn't define what will be. Understanding. A surprisingly light Ozu that may surprisingly be a favorite just in how honest it is to lived experience and how optimistic it is to continual healing, something he's certainly known for at large but here is it especially an ode to compassion. Loving each other during calm waters is easy, natural even, but it is in those moments of seeing each other during the tempest that are hard and, as such, dear.The best time to have started change has passed. The second best is now.
"It's enough. I'm glad you understand." So says Mokichi (Shin Saburi) to his wife Taeko (Michiyo Kogure) towards the end of The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice—and that line right there not only summarizes Yasujiro Ozu's view of marriage as contingent on compromise and empathy, but also succinctly sums up the great Japanese filmmaker's complex, unsparing yet wise humanist perspective as a whole. Just when you think Ozu, after putting the Satakes' troubled arranged marriage under an alternately comic and dramatic microscope for about an hour and a half, is about to succumb to bitterness and cynicism, he surprises us with a scene overflowing with tenderness and love. Without acceptance lies loneliness. Whether the initial passion was there or not, "reliability" is what inevitably keeps a marriage going. Someday the young ones will learn.
The film follows an estranged middle-aged couple in post-war Japan whose arranged marriage faces a severe crisis due to differences in background and temperament.
It was directed by Yasujirō Ozu in 1952, one of Japan's most acclaimed and influential master filmmakers.
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