Film
Tea Friends
2023 · 2h 16m · Drama
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Overview
Shigeo Tokioka (Tetsu Watanabe), 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". Mana Sasaki (Rei Okamoto) 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. 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.
Cast
Rei Okamoto
Mana Sasaki
Maki Isonishi
Matsuko
Tetsu Watanabe
Shigeo Tokioka
Hiroki Sano
Kyuichiro Nakayama
Satoru Shigeoka
Miu Kainuma
Takeru Suzuki
Natsue Hyakumoto
Crew
- Bunji SotoyamaScreenplay · Director
Media
Details
- Release date
- February 4, 2023
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Genres
- Drama
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