Film

Tea Friends

2023 · 2h 16m · Drama

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.

Rei Okamoto

Mana Sasaki

Maki Isonishi

Matsuko

Tetsu Watanabe

Shigeo Tokioka

Hiroki Sano

Kyuichiro Nakayama

Satoru Shigeoka

Miu Kainuma

Takeru Suzuki

Natsue Hyakumoto

• Bunji SotoyamaScreenplay · Director

Release date

February 4, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 16m

Genres

Drama

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