UW Cinematheque - Summer Cinematheque
The Taste of Tea | Japan | 2004 | DCP | 143 min. | Japanese with English subtitles Director: Katsuhito Ishii
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Takahiro Sato, Maya Sakano, Tadanobu Asano
In the quiet Japanese countryside, a series of surreal and comic episodes explore a wildly unconventional family: an artist mother obsessed with animation, a hypnotherapist father, a lovestruck teenage son, a daughter haunted by a double, and an uncle troubled by ghosts of the past. Director Katsuhito Ishii, who contributed the anime sequence to Kill Bill, crafts an eccentric portrait of domestic life.
In the quiet Japanese countryside, a series of surreal and comic episodes explore a wildly unconventional family: an artist mother obsessed with animation, a hypnotherapist father, a lovestruck teenage son, a daughter haunted by a double, and an uncle troubled by ghosts of the past. Director Katsuhito Ishii, who contributed the anime sequence to Kill Bill, crafts an eccentric portrait of domestic life.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Wednesday, July 8, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.