The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

Yasujirō Ozu, 1952

Spine #989

Picked by 2 guests

Drama

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Written by Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu

Cinematography Yûharu Atsuta

Edited by Yoshiyasu Hamamura

Cast Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Koji Tsuruta, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Tsushima, Eijirō Yanagi, Kuniko Miyake, Kōji Shitara

Picked by

Cauleen Smith director

“This is an Ozu film I haven't seen but I saw the title and it just washed over me, The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice. I'll let you know, I'll let you know what I think about that one.”

Cauleen Smith

Patton Oswalt actor

“I gotta grab an Ozu, and I'm grabbing The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice because this movie actually has a shot where the camera pans in, which for Ozu is like a Michael Bay action sequence. The fact that the camera actually moved forward, it's like, 'Whoa, fuck me up, Ozu.' So strap yourselves in for Ozu going crazy.”

Patton Oswalt