The Taste of Tea

2004

In the quiet countryside north of Tokyo, the eccentric Haruno family drifts through everyday life laced with the surreal: a hypnotherapist father, an animator mother, a lovestruck teenage son, and a little girl shadowed by a giant double of herself. Writer-director Katsuhito Ishii's cult comedy-drama, newly restored in HD, blends gentle family portraiture with bursts of fantasy, animation, and deadpan humor. Starring Tadanobu Asano.