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Tea Friends

Tea Friends

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 4, 2023

Runtime

2h 16m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

茶飲友達

Production Companies

ENBU Seminar

Director

Bunji Sotoyama

Description

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.