#ishii katsuhito

[antinousamongthereeds]

[cinemaobscura]

The Taste of Tea | 茶の味 (2004) dir. Ishii Katsuhito

[ryujiis]

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl / 鮫肌男と桃尻女 (1999) dir. Ishii Katsuhito

"When I was a kid, I thought a tattoo would appear on your back when you grew up. I really believed that."

[cinematicjourney]

The Taste of Tea (2004) | dir. Katsuhito Hishii

[chernobog13]

GAMERA (2015)

I was able to find the entire short on Youtube, so here you are:

[nine-frames]

"Sachiko Haruno was wondering. When on earth was that giant version of her going to disappear?"

茶の味 (Cha no Aji / The Taste of Tea), 2004.

Dir. & Writ. Katsuhito Ishii | DOP Kosuke Matushima

[apicturespeaks]

The Taste of Tea, Katsuhito Ishii

[luckypluckychair]

茶の味 / The Taste of Tea | 2004

Director: Katsuhito Ishii

Production designer: Yuji Tsuzuki

[xenovirart]

might be my favourite piece of animation, artistically it's what i strive for

[films-things]

[love-from-sasha]

my letterboxd top 4 (all you really need to know about me)

Chungking Express (1994)

dir. Wong Kar-Wai

"we're all unlucky in love sometimes"

two melancholic hong kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant

The Taste of Tea (2004)

dir. Katsuhito Ishii

"the mountain is alive, the mountain is alive"

the taste of tea is a surreal 'slice of life' film following the eccentric lives of a family in the rural tochigi prefecture

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

dir. Michel Gondry

"what a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger"

Joel, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same

Stalker (1979)

dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

"you can't be happy at the expense of other's unhappiness"

a guide helps a writer and a professor to infiltrate a restricted area, the zone, in which they seek to fulfil their desires

with love,

sasha

[antinousamongthereeds]

[cinemaobscura]

The Taste of Tea | 茶の味 (2004) dir. Ishii Katsuhito

[300films]

unpredictable/warmth/nostalgia

[astuteobservations]

The Taste of Tea director KATSUHITO ISHII year 2004 director of photography KOSUKE MATUSHIMA

[notokra]