CinemaOSMovie · 2023 · 2h 16m

Tea Friends

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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.

Directed byBunji Sotoyama

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Status
Released
Runtime
2h 16m
Language
JA
Released
February 4, 2023
Studios
ENBU Seminar

Featuring

Cast & crew

9 credited
Starring
Rei Okamoto

Rei Okamoto

Mana Sasaki

Maki Isonishi

Maki Isonishi

Matsuko

Tetsu Watanabe

Tetsu Watanabe

Shigeo Tokioka

Hiroki Sano

Hiroki Sano

Kyuichiro Nakayama

Kyuichiro Nakayama

Satoru Shigeoka

Satoru Shigeoka

Miu Kainuma

Takeru Suzuki

Takeru Suzuki

Natsue Hyakumoto

Natsue Hyakumoto

Creative team
Directed by
Bunji Sotoyama
Bunji Sotoyama
Written by
Bunji Sotoyama
Bunji Sotoyama

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