Taste of Tea / Cha no aji (2002)

Nothing could be more ordinary yet more meaningful for traditional Japanese culture than the cup of tea. Reflecting this, the outline of A Taste of Tea is quite simple. The viewer observes a family while it passes through one spring when the son enters high school and the daughter goes to grade school, while Dad …

Pastoral Hide and Seek / Pastoral: To Die in the Country / Den-en ni shisu (1974)

It is not often you will see a movie adapted from a book of poems, but then it is not often you will see a movie like Pastoral Hide and Seek. Surrealism is a term that, like all artistic terms, gets tossed around to mean a lot of things, but this is arguably the most …