The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea
The Taste of Tea poster
Original title	茶の味
Directed by	Katsuhito Ishii
Written by	Katsuhito Ishii
Produced by	Kazuto Takida Kazutoshi Wadakura
Starring	Tadanobu Asano Takahiro Sato Maya Banno Satomi Tezuka Tomokazu Miura Tatsuya Gashuin Anna Tsuchiya Rinko Kikuchi
Cinematography	Kosuke Matushima
Edited by	Katsuhito Ishii
Music by	Little Tempo
Distributed by	Grasshoppa (Japan) Viz Media (USA)
Release date	July 17, 2004 (2004-07-17)
Running time	143 min
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

The Taste of Tea (茶の味, Cha no Aji) is a 2004 Japanese comedy drama fantasy film written and directed by Katsuhito Ishii. Described as a "surreal" version of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (1982), it follows the daily lives of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. It was a selection of the Cannes Film Festival.^[1]