Oct 01, 1952
116 min
Full-HD

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Shochiku

Shin Saburi

Mokichi Satake

Michiyo Kogure

Taeko Satake

Koji Tsuruta

Noboru Okada

Chikage Awashima

Aya Amamiya

Keiko Tsushima

Setsuko Yamauchi

Eijirō Yanagi

Yamauchi

Kuniko Miyake

Chizu Yamauchi

Kōji Shitara

Koji Yamauchi

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