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Tea Friends

20230.0 / 10136 min
Drama

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

Rei Okamoto

Mana Sasaki

Hiroki Sano

Hiroki Sano

Kyuichiro Nakayama

Kyuichiro Nakayama

Miu Kainuma

Miu Kainuma

Takeru Suzuki

Takeru Suzuki

Tetsu Watanabe

Tetsu Watanabe

Shigeo Tokioka

Crew

Bunji Sotoyama

Bunji Sotoyama

Screenplay

Kenji Noguchi

Kenji Noguchi

Cinematography

Sayaka Asaoka

Sayaka Asaoka

Music

Bunji Sotoyama

Bunji Sotoyama

Director