The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice(Ochazuke no aji)

Deliciously flavoured with humour and melancholy, Ozu’s subtly piercing portrait of a middle-aged couple gives a mixed taste of marriage itself. The domestic saga traces the emotional discord between a bourgeois, pompous wife and her rustic husband, as strife erupts with their conflicting views to the arranged marriage of their modern niece. At once exploring conjugal dynamics and class difference of the postwar zeitgeist, this bittersweet comedy is thoroughly infused with Ozu’s savour of sublime humility and simplicity in life – like the unassuming taste of green tea over rice.

Mainichi Film Awards: Best Actor

27/8 (Sun): Film talk with Edith Chiu