Tea Friends (2023)

Original title

茶飲友達

Directed by

Bunji Sotoyama

Genre

drama

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 16m

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A group of young people run a business arranging paid sex for elderly clients using newspaper ads. The film looks at loneliness and sexuality in modern Japan through these transactions.

soberingunsettlingcontemplativegrittylonelybleakslow-burnintimate

What happens

『茶飲友達』（ちゃのみともだち）は、2023年2月4日公開の日本映画。監督は外山文治。主演は岡本玲。PG12指定。実際に起きた高齢者の売春事件をモチーフにした、社会派群像劇。 「茶飲友達、募集。」という新聞の三行広告を利用した高齢者の売買春ビジネスと、それを経営する若者たちの物語を通じて、現代社会の性や孤独を描く。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.