Release Date

February, 4th, 2023

Running Time

134 min

Genre

Drama , Feature

Color

Color

Screening Format

DCP

Screen Size

-

Sound Processing

-

Screening Format with Subtitles

English (DCP)

[ Directed by ]

• SOTOYAMA Bunji

[ Produced by ]

• ICHIHASHI Koji
• SOTOYAMA Bunji

[ Cast ]

• OKAMOTO Rei ── SASAKI Mana

[ Staff ]

• SOTOYAMA Bunji ── Screenplay
• NOGUCHI Kenji ── Cinematography
• SON Chinsui ── Sound Recording
• OBARA Satoko ── Editor
• ASAOKA Sayaka ── Music

[ Production Company ]

TeaFriends Film Partners

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

EACHTIME

[ Story ]

A socially-conscious ensemble drama inspired by the news of an actual 2013 prostitution club bust involving the elderly. Directed and written by Sotoyama Bunji, who made his feature film debut with Sansan.
Tokioka Shigeo (Watanabe Tetsu), a lonely man who has lost his wife, sees a three-line ad for a club in the newspaper that reads, "Tea drinking friends wanted". Sasaki Mana (Okamoto Rei) along with a group of youngsters runs the club, which is actually a prostitution business specializing in arranging appointments for call girls who are over sixty-five years old.

[ Official Site ]

http://teafriend.net

[ Film Festivals, Awards ]

2023 KINOTAYO festival de films japonais contemporains, Le Grand Prix

[ Contact (International) ]

Free Stone Productions Co., Ltd.
International Sales
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Attn: NAGATA Fumiko, TAKAGI Yuko, Nakamura Momoko
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