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Japanese master Yasujiro Ozus beautiful domestic drama is piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone in post-war Tokyo
Made the year before his career defining masterpiece,Tokyo Story,Flavour of Green Tea Over Riceis one ofYasujiro Ozusmost beautiful domestic sagas, a subtly piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone.
Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle aged couple, as the wifes city bred sophistication clashes with the husbands small town simplicity, and a generational sea change in the form of their headstrong, modern niece sweeps over their household.
Ozus expert grasp of family dynamics receives one of its most spirited treatments, with a wry, tender humour and an expansiveness that moves the action from the home, to the baseball stadiums and the shops of post-war Tokyo.
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