Tea Making Tips (1941)

Two friends share a light-hearted conversation over tea until the exchange takes a bizarre turn.

Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness, defining the true spirit of martial arts and also inspiring his nation. The son of a great fighter who didn't wish for his child to follow in his footsteps, Huo resolves to teach himself how to fight - and win.

80代の男性として誕生し、そこから徐々に若返っていく運命のもとに生まれた男ベンジャミン・バトン。時間の流れを止められず、誰とも違う数奇な人生を歩まなくてはならない彼は、愛する人との出会いと別れを経験し、人生の喜びや死の悲しみを知りながら、時間を刻んでいくが……。＜F・スコット・フィッツジェラルドの短編小説をデヴィッド・フィンチャーが映画化した感動巨編。第一次世界大戦時から21世紀に至るまでのニューオリンズを舞台に、80代で生まれ、徐々に若返っていく男の数奇な運命が描かれる。主人公のベンジャミン・バトンを演じるのはフィンチャー監督作に3度目の主演となるブラッド・ピット。共演はケイト・ブランシェット。誰とも違う人生の旅路を歩む、ベンジャミン・バトンの運命の行方に注目。＞

小説家志望のジャーナリスト、ダンはある日ロンドンの街中で、ニューヨークからやって来たばかりの若いストリッパー、アリスと出会う。恋に落ちた２人は間もなく同棲を始める。１年半後、ついに処女小説の出版が決まったダンは、訪れた撮影スタジオでフォトグラファーのアンナに一目惚れしてしまう。彼女もダンに惹かれていたが、アリスとの同棲を知って身を引くことに。半年後、“アンナ”になりすましチャットでいたずらをするダン。ニセの“アンナ”につられて、水族館のデートに現われた医師ラリーだったが、彼は偶然そこで本物のアンナと出逢う…。

曹操の元へ男装して潜入していた孫権の妹・尚香は、疫病で亡くなった兵士たちの死体が船に積まれ、連合軍のいる対岸へ流されていく光景を目撃する。死体に触れた連合軍の兵士から次々と疫病が感染し、曹操の非情なやり方に周瑜をはじめ、連合軍は憤りを感じ、劉備軍は自軍の兵と民のために撤退を決意するが、孔明はただひとり戦地に残るのだった。

戦後変わりつつある家族の関係をテーマに人間の生と死までをも見つめた深淵なドラマ。故郷の尾道から20年ぶりに東京へ出てきた老夫婦。成人した子どもたちの家を訪ねるが、みなそれぞれの生活に精一杯だった。唯一、戦死した次男の未亡人だけが皮肉にも優しい心遣いを示すのだった……。

「黒髪」：妻を捨て、京都から遠い任地へと赴いた武士。そこで彼は、良い家柄の娘と結婚するが、彼女は冷酷な女で、男は今さら、別れた妻のことを思い出すのだった。やがて任期を終え、京都に戻った彼は最初の妻と再会するが…。「雪女」：きこりの巳之吉は、森へ薪を採りに入ったところで吹雪に遭い、山小屋に閉じ込められるはめに。その晩彼は、雪女の姿を目の当たりにし…。ほかに「耳無し抱一の話」「茶碗の中」の計4編。

ガイ・リッチー監督・脚本によるクライム・ムービー。一攫千金を狙う4人の若者を軸に、ギャングやマフィアが入り交じって繰り広げる群像劇を独特のユーモアを交えて描く。巧妙なストーリー展開やテンポある演出に加え、多彩な登場人物が見せる妙な味わいが秀逸。ロンドンの下町に生きるエディはある日、仲間3人から金を集め、ギャンブルに投資するが惨敗。逆にその元締めに多額の借金を背負ってしまう。返済猶予は一週間。途方に暮れるエディたちだったが、彼らは偶然隣人の強盗計画を耳にする。

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Rosario, the niece of the rancher, returns to the ranch after ten years of absence. She takes in Margarito, a worker at the ranch, who is immediately smitten by her. Rosario is rescued from a runaway horse by the Seven Men, an outlaw a la Robin Hood that steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He also happens to be the twin brother of Margarito, unbeknownst to him. The confusion between Margarito and the Seven Men generates great comical situations in the film.

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

天正19年。かつては織田信長に茶頭として仕え、彼亡き後は豊臣秀吉の庇護の下、茶の湯を芸術の域にまで高めて“茶聖”とまでうたわれた千利休が、秀吉によって切腹を命じられ、人生最後の日を迎えようとしていた。妻の宗恩から、自分のほかにずっと想う人がいたのではないかと問われ、利休の脳裏にかつての遠い記憶がよみがえる。それは、若き日の彼が出会った、高麗出身の美しい女性との秘められたはかない恋の思い出だった。

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and the British Empire exchanged poppies, produced in its Indian colonies and transformed into opium, for Chinese tea. Inundated by the drugs, China was forced to open up its market, and the British consolidated their commercial dominance. In 1839, the Middle Empire introduced prohibition. The Opium War was declared… Great Britain emerged as the winner, but the warning was heeded: it could no longer depend on Chinese tea. The only alternative possible was to produce its own tea. The East India Company therefore entrusted one man with finding the secrets of the precious beverage. His mission was to develop the first plantations in Britain’s Indian colonies. This latter-day James Bond was called Robert Fortune – a botanist. After overcoming innumerable ordeals in the heart of imperial China, he brought back the plants and techniques that gave rise to Darjeeling tea.

A descendant of an ancient tea tribe heads to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea to break the curse of a tribal rivalry. Meanwhile, in an "underground tea market" somewhere in Taiwan that sells rare expensive tea from around the world, tribe members have other motives up their sleeves regarding the black tea legacy. Each for their own cause, rival tribal members become tangled up in a web of love and hate.

On a quiet afternoon an elderly woman prepares some afternoon tea for her and her husband. This short film was made on a single Super-8 cartridge, edited in camera, shot in sequence with only one take per shot. This was originally made for an Los Angeles film event called: "Attack of the 50 Foot Reels".

A shut-in´s routine is disrupted by the visit of his older brother. The disruption leads to joy in the end.

A documentary directed by Hori Teiichi who was a production assistant on the 1994 documentary Otentousama ga Hoshii and has worked in a wide variety of genres from pink films to ordinary theatrical releases. The lifestyle and scenery of Osawa, a village situated 740 meters up on the mountainous slopes of Hamamatsu city's northern region in Shizuoka Prefecture, are the focus of this first installment to the "Tenryu-ku" series. It straightforwardly captures the tea harvest in late May and the tea processing conducted in a factory while showcasing mist shrouded tea fields drummed by rain as well as the beauty of the glistening green of the tea leaf shoots.

During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmer's collectives selling tea, ways to export "boutique tea" from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming's best friend, the earthworm.

Three different stories blended in a single movie, are brewed and connected by the exemplary Bengali beverage, Chaa (Tea)

A short film about a man, a forest run, a girl, an accident and a tea shop. Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. Originally written for Montreal's M60 film festival in August 2012--The theme was "faux pas". The literal interpretation was chosen to avoid the cliche. This is the director's cut, released and showcased at Montreal's Broue Pub Brouhaha in June 2013.