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Filmmaker Katsuhito Ishii takes a break from the post-Tarantino excess of such highly-stylized outings as Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl for this low-key look at an eccentric family residing in a quiet countryside town just north of Tokyo. The Haruno family is a five-piece clan living the simple life in Japan. The summer sun shining gently down, this quiet quintet is transformed into a six-piece when urban-dwelling uncle Ayano (Tadanobu Asano), a successful music producer, arrives to visit his family and confront his feelings for the ex-girlfriend who married another man after Ayano moved to the city. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes. (Third Window Films)
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The Taste of Tea is endearing, heartfelt and funny in places, but it’s mostly a boring and nonsensical mishmash of images from the life of a family in rural Japan. I don’t fault the director for being flighty, but I can’t forgive him for what he transforms his vision into. Most of the dialogue in this film is forced improvisation with no concept and the interesting scenes make up half an hour of the 140 minute runtime!
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