Tea Friends

Overview

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

Status

Released

Release date

February 4, 2023

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

ENBU Seminar

Cast

Rei Okamoto,Maki Isonishi,Tetsu Watanabe,Hiroki Sano,Kyuichiro Nakayama,Satoru Shigeoka,Miu Kainuma,Takeru Suzuki,Natsue Hyakumoto

Director

Bunji Sotoyama

Writer

Bunji Sotoyama

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt28769947