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The Taste of Tea (Cha no aji) (2004)

"The Taste of Tea" begins with Hajime(Takahiro Sato) devastated because the girl he has a crush on is moving away before he was able to fully express his feelings to her. His younger sister Sachiko(Maya Banno) has problems of her own with a giant representation of her that hangs over everything she does. Their uncle Ayano(Tadanobu Asano) once had a similar problem with a Yakuza ghost until he conquered the horizontal beam which inspires Sachiko to try the same thing. More vulgar than it probably had to be, "The Taste of Tea" gets off to a good start with some coolly surreal images before spinning its wheels for its very extended running time. At least the film does not devolve into "Saragossa Manuscript"-like insanity but that's not to say there is much in the way of focus here, as tangents from the children's lives form at will. Some of them are amusing while others just sit there. And with a movie that is as formed around special effects and fantasy as this one, it is ironic that the one transcendent scene involves neither, just honest to goodness emotion.

Contrary to those Oscar-heralded pieces of garbage, this is a movie that doesn't structure its characters into the confines of a narrative pie chart and doesn't treat these individual experiences as manipulated moments for the audience to laugh at, but as a collective recollection we can all fondly recall as at least partially our own. Too many films falsely pretend that people aren't inherently weird. Here, that quality is the one most celebrated.

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