The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice - Quiz
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
  • 1. What is the Japanese title of the film 'The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice'?
A) Ochazuke no Aji
B) Late Spring
C) Tokyo Story
D) The Only Son
  • 2. Who directed the 1952 film 'The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice'?
A) Yasuzo Masumura
B) Yasujirō Ozu
C) Kenji Mizoguchi
D) Akira Kurosawa
  • 3. In what year was 'The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice' released?
A) 1952
B) 1960
C) 1948
D) 1955
  • 4. Who plays the wealthy middle-aged couple in the film?
A) So Yamamura and Kinuyo Tanaka
B) Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure
C) Chishū Ryū and Setsuko Hara
D) Ken Uehara and Hideko Takamine
  • 5. What is Mokichi Satake's profession?
A) Railway conductor
B) Executive at an engineering company
C) Bank manager
D) University professor
  • 6. Where does the married couple live?
A) Kyoto
B) Hiroshima
C) Tokyo
D) Osaka
  • 7. Do Taeko and Mokichi have any children?
A) Yes, they have two daughters
B) Yes, they have one son
C) Yes, they have three children
D) No, they are childless
  • 8. Who persuades Taeko to lie to her husband about Setsuko being ill?
A) Aya
B) Takako
C) Noboru
D) Fumi
  • 9. What animal do the women compare Mokichi to while at the spa?
A) A quiet dog
B) An old turtle
C) A slow moving black koi in the pond
D) A lazy cat
  • 10. Which sport do Taeko, Aya, and Takako attend a few days after the spa trip?
A) Baseball game
B) Soccer match
C) Tennis match
D) Sumo wrestling
  • 11. Who calls in the public announcement at the baseball game for Taeko to go home?
A) Setsuko
B) Mokichi
C) Aya
D) Noboru
  • 12. Why does Setsuko call Taeko home from the baseball game?
A) To report a fire in the kitchen
B) Because Mokichi was injured
C) To tell her about an arranged marriage her parents want to set up
D) To announce she is getting married immediately
  • 13. Where does Mokichi meet up with an army buddy who runs a parlor?
A) At a noodle shop
B) At a Pachinko parlor
C) At a bar
D) At the train station
  • 14. Where does Taeko visit her family to discuss Setsuko's arranged marriage?
A) Kamakura
B) Oiso
C) Hakone
D) Nikko
  • 15. What performance does Setsuko run away from during the arranged marriage meeting?
A) Classical concert
B) Kabuki theater
C) Noh theater
D) Bunraku puppet show
  • 16. Where are Mokichi and Noboru planning to go when Setsuko runs off to find them?
A) Horse races
B) Auto races
C) Bicycle races
D) Boat races
  • 17. What do Noboru and Setsuko eat and talk about at the noodle house?
A) Udon noodles
B) Green tea over rice
C) Soba noodles
D) Ramen noodles
  • 18. Why does Taeko become angry and refuse to speak to Mokichi for days?
A) Because Mokichi insulted her friend Aya
B) Because Mokichi lost his job
C) Because Mokichi sold their house
D) Because Mokichi was with Setsuko without informing her
  • 19. What simple pleasures of life does Mokichi mention to Taeko?
A) Eating street food and sleeping on a tatami mat
B) Smoking inferior cigarettes and traveling third-class on a train
C) Walking in the rain and reading comic books
D) Fishing by the river and wearing old clothes
  • 20. What class of train cars does Taeko prefer to travel in?
A) First class
B) Second class
C) Economy class
D) Third class
  • 21. To which country is Mokichi's company sending him on a business trip?
A) Argentina
B) Brazil
C) United States
D) Uruguay
  • 22. What happens to Mokichi's airplane two hours into the flight?
A) It experiences mechanical troubles and returns to Tokyo
B) It crashes into the ocean
C) It is forced to land in another city due to weather
D) It is delayed at a refueling stop
  • 23. What is the name of the household servant who is sleeping when Mokichi returns home unexpectedly?
A) Suzu
B) Fumi
C) Hana
D) Kiku
  • 24. What meal do Mokichi and Taeko prepare together in the unfamiliar kitchen?
A) Tempura and miso soup
B) Sashimi and rice
C) Ochazuke, rice with green tea
D) Beef sukiyaki
  • 25. What does Mokichi say about the day they make ochazuke together?
A) It was the day he regretted nothing
B) It was his happiest day since he married her
C) It was the most exhausting day of the year
D) It was the quietest day of his life
  • 26. What does Taeko promise Mokichi after they make up over green tea and rice?
A) Never to leave without a word again
B) To stop smoking inferior cigarettes
C) To start traveling third-class with him
D) To apologize to Setsuko's parents
  • 27. Who is Setsuko confiding in at the end of the film regarding her aunt's changed attitude?
A) Mokichi
B) Takako
C) Noboru
D) Aya
  • 28. How does the final scene depict Setsuko and Noboru?
A) Getting married at a traditional shrine
B) Walking away, arguing in a somewhat playful manner
C) Boarding a train together for a honeymoon
D) Eating ramen noodles at a street stall
  • 29. Who substitutes the invalid Setsuko at the spa trip?
A) Fumi
B) Takako
C) Aya
D) Hana
  • 30. Who played Non-chan / Noboru Okada?
A) Eijirō Yanagi
B) Kōji Tsuruta
C) Chishū Ryū
D) Shin Saburi
  • 31. Which actor played Sadao Hirayama?
A) Naosuke Yamauchi
B) Chishū Ryū
C) Kōji Tsuruta
D) Shin Saburi
  • 32. Who played Aya Amamiya?
A) Michiyo Kogure
B) Keiko Tsushima
C) Chikage Awashima
D) Kuniko Miyake
  • 33. Who portrayed Setsuko Yamauchi?
A) Keiko Tsushima
B) Mie Kitahara
C) Yūko Mochizuki
D) Yōko Kosono
  • 34. Who played Chizu Yamauchi?
A) Michiyo Kogure
B) Keiko Tsushima
C) Kuniko Miyake
D) Chikage Awashima
  • 35. Who portrayed Naosuke Yamauchi?
A) Kōji Tsuruta
B) Eijirō Yanagi
C) Chishū Ryū
D) Shin Saburi
  • 36. Who played the Satake's maid Fumi?
A) Keiko Tsushima
B) Mie Kitahara
C) Yōko Kosono
D) Yūko Mochizuki
  • 37. Who played Sadao's wife Shige?
A) Yūko Mochizuki
B) Chikage Awashima
C) Kuniko Miyake
D) Yōko Kosono
  • 38. Who played the Waitress?
A) Yōko Kosono
B) Keiko Tsushima
C) Mie Kitahara
D) Yūko Mochizuki
  • 39. What was the original 1939 title of the script written by Yasujirō Ozu?
A) Kareshi Nankin e Iku
B) Boyfriend in Uruguay
C) What Did the Lady Forget?
D) O-chazuke no aji
  • 40. In the original 1939 script story, what was the man about to be sent abroad for?
A) Studying abroad
B) A business trip
C) Military service
D) A traditional wedding
  • 41. In what year was the script retitled 'O-chazuke no aji' and prepared for production?
A) 1950
B) 1939
C) 1940
D) 1973
  • 42. What did Ozu do after the military censors demanded script rewrites?
A) Changed the title back
B) Fled to Uruguay
C) Shelved the project
D) Filmed it immediately
  • 43. Who wrote a review of the film in 1973 calling it 'not great Ozu'?
A) David Bordwell
B) Vincent Canby
C) Junji Yoshida
D) Dave Kehr
  • 44. How did Vincent Canby describe the film's subplot about a girl refusing traditional wedding arrangements?
A) Almost formula comedy
B) Painfully subtle study
C) An elaborate technique
D) A masterpiece of melodrama
  • 45. According to Vincent Canby, Kogure and Saburi's characters become touched by what?
A) Cliché
B) Deep bitterness
C) Formula comedy
D) A kind of nobility
  • 46. What did Vincent Canby say Ozu never wastes our interest on?
A) Connecting scenes if we can take them for granted
B) Subplots about weddings
C) Background music
D) Elaborate camera movements
  • 47. According to Vincent Canby, a man walking from one office to another becomes important as an acknowledgment of what?
A) Military service
B) Time lost
C) Script censorship
D) Family relationships
  • 48. Who marked the film as 'Recommended' in the Chicago Reader?
A) Junji Yoshida
B) Vincent Canby
C) Dave Kehr
D) David Bordwell
  • 49. What did Dave Kehr praise Ozu's melodramas for avoiding?
A) Any sense of cliché
B) Connecting scenes
C) Traditional wedding arrangements
D) Subtle studies
  • 50. Which company released a digitally restored version of the film on DVD and Blu-ray?
A) Nanjing Productions
B) Chicago Reader
C) The Criterion Collection
D) Mainichi Film Awards
  • 51. What 1939 feature directed by Yasujirō Ozu is included as an extra in the Criterion Collection release?
A) Boyfriend is going to Nanjing
B) What Did the Lady Forget?
C) Kareshi Nankin e Iku
D) O-chazuke no aji
  • 52. Who provided a video essay included in the home video release extras?
A) Dave Kehr
B) Vincent Canby
C) David Bordwell
D) Junji Yoshida
  • 53. Who wrote the essay featured in the booklet included in the Criterion Collection release?
A) Vincent Canby
B) Dave Kehr
C) David Bordwell
D) Junji Yoshida
  • 54. Who designed the cover for the Criterion Collection release?
A) Junji Yoshida
B) Katherine Lam
C) David Bordwell
D) Yasujirō Ozu
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