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Tea Friends

2023 • 2h16m Drama

Popularity

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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.

Details

Director

Bunji Sotoyama

Screenplay

Bunji Sotoyama

Cast

Rei Okamoto

Hiroki Sano

Kyuichiro Nakayama

Release date

2/4/2023

Status

Released

Origin country

JP