The Taste of Tea (Japanese Movie)

Description: Eight-year old Sachiko (Maya Banno) is bothered at inopportune moments by her own giant-sized double, who hangs around sitting on buildings staring at her, while her older brother Hajime (Takahiro Sato) privately wrestles with raging hormones and a love-struck crush on a pretty new classmate (Anna Tsuchiya from Kamikaze Girls). The grown-ups have their difficulties too: the mother (Satomi Tezuka) struggles to come out of retirement as an animator, and the father (Tomokazu Miura) is a professional hypnotist who occasionally plies his trade on his own family with often-funny results. An uncle (Tadanobu Asano from Ichi the Killer) drops in for a visit, but he also has a hidden agenda as he comes to terms with a romance that ended years ago. directed and edited by Katsuhito Ishii; director of photography, Kosuke Matsushima; music by Little Tempo; production designer, Yuji Tsuzuki; produced by Kazuto Takida and Kazutoshi WITH: Maya Banno (Sachiko Haruno), Takahiro Sato (Hajime Haruno), Tadanobu Asano (Ayano Haruno), Satomi Tezuka (Yoshiko Haruno), Tatsuya Gasyuin (Akira Todoroki), Anna Tsuchiya (Aoi Suzuishi), Tomoko Nakajima (Akira Terako) and Tomokazu Miura (Nobuo Haruno).