Tea Friends

Tea Friends (2023)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2023-02-04
  • Runtime: 2h 16min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: ENBU Seminar
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Bunji Sotoyama

Summary

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.

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  • Rei Okamoto

    as Mana Sasaki
  • Hiroki Sano

    as
  • Kyuichiro Nakayama

    as
  • Miu Kainuma

    as
  • Takeru Suzuki

    as
  • Tetsu Watanabe

    as Shigeo Tokioka
Writing Bunji Sotoyama Screenplay
Crew Kenji Noguchi Cinematography
Sound Sayaka Asaoka Music
Directing Bunji Sotoyama Director

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