Tea Over Rice (or The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice) is a 1952 Japanese film by Yasujiro Ozu, about a wealthy middle-aged couple (played by Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure) who have marital difficulties. The story includes a sub-plot about a niece who uses the couple's troubles as her excuse for not attending omiai (arranged marriage) interviews. Yasujiro Ozu (小津 安二郎 Ozu Yasujirō December 12, 1903 - December 12, 1963) was an influential Japanese film director. ... An arranged marriage is a marriage where the marital partners are chosen by others based on considerations other than the pre-existing mutual attraction of the partners. ...
Tea, Camellia Sinensis,is probably Britain's favourite drink,but did you know that there are three main types of tea,viz, Black Tea.
I enjoy trying different types of herbal teas and recently I was given a box of Korean green tea bags and Japanese green tea leaves as a gift from my son’s girlfriend; green tea actually comes from the same tea plant as the more common fl tea.
This tea plant, called Camellia Sinensis, is a fragrant evergreen shrub found in abundance in China and India.
There is a sense of familiarity in the situations depicted in Flavour of Green TeaoverRice; the generation gap and their different attitudes towards marriage; coming to terms with the cards life has dealt you; making the most of what you have; and enjoying the simple things in life.
Her mother is trying to set-up a suitable match for an arranged marriage for the young woman, but seeing the petty deceptions and lack of respect that constitutes the married life of Takeo and her friends, she isnt happy with the old-fashioned traditions.
Both Record of a Tenement Gentleman and Flavour of Green TeaoverRice however are pure Yasujiro Ozu, containing many of the directors favourite character types, themes and subjects and these beautiful little films are treated with no less of the customary precision and delicacy that you expect from the great Japanese director.
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