Taste of Tea (Third Window UK) (Blu-Ray Region B)

Filmmaker Katsuhito Ishii takes a break from the post-Tarantino excess of such highly-stylized outings as Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl for this low-key look at an eccentric family residing in a quiet countryside town just north of Tokyo. 

The Haruno family is a five-piece clan living the simple life in Japan. The summer sun shining gently down, this quiet quintet is transformed into a six-piece when urban-dwelling uncle Ayano (Tadanobu Asano), a successful music producer, arrives to visit his family and confront his feelings for the ex-girlfriend who married another man after Ayano moved to the city. 

As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

Production Year: 2004 

Region Code: B 

UK Rating: 15 

Running Time: 143 mins 

Number of Discs: 1 

Language: Japanese 

Subtitles: English 

Audio: Stereo/5.1 

Aspect Ratio: Widescreen 

Colour: Colour

Extra Features

• 90 minute Making Of
• ‘Super Big’ animation
• Reversible sleeve with original release artwork

(*special features in standard definition)