Tea Friends

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.

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

136 minutes

Year:

2023

Director:

Bunji Sotoyama

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Company:

ENBU Seminar

Cast:
Rei Okamoto

Mana Sasaki

Hiroki Sano

Kyuichiro Nakayama

Miu Kainuma

Takeru Suzuki

Crew:
Sayaka Asaoka

Music

Kenji Noguchi

Cinematography

Bunji Sotoyama

Screenplay

Bunji Sotoyama

Director