Tea Friends (2023)
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.
Director:
Bunji Sotoyama
Writer:
Bunji Sotoyama
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Rei Okamoto as Mana Sasaki |
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Maki Isonishi as Matsuko |
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Tetsu Watanabe as Shigeo Tokioka |
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Hiroki Sano as |
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Kyuichiro Nakayama as |
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Satoru Shigeoka as |
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Miu Kainuma as |
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Takeru Suzuki as |
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Natsue Hyakumoto as |
| Writing | Bunji Sotoyama | Screenplay |
| Crew | Kenji Noguchi | Cinematography |
| Sound | Sayaka Asaoka | Music |
| Directing | Bunji Sotoyama | Director |
