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  • 1. What is the Japanese title of the film 'The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice'?
A) Late Spring
B) The Only Son
C) Tokyo Story
D) Ochazuke no Aji
  • 2. Who directed the 1952 film 'The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice'?
A) Yasuzo Masumura
B) Akira Kurosawa
C) Yasujirō Ozu
D) Kenji Mizoguchi
  • 3. In what year was 'The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice' released?
A) 1955
B) 1952
C) 1960
D) 1948
  • 4. Who plays the wealthy middle-aged couple in the film?
A) Shin Saburi and Michiyo Kogure
B) So Yamamura and Kinuyo Tanaka
C) Chishū Ryū and Setsuko Hara
D) Ken Uehara and Hideko Takamine
  • 5. What is Mokichi Satake's profession?
A) Railway conductor
B) Bank manager
C) Executive at an engineering company
D) University professor
  • 6. Where does the married couple live?
A) Tokyo
B) Kyoto
C) Hiroshima
D) Osaka
  • 7. Do Taeko and Mokichi have any children?
A) Yes, they have three children
B) No, they are childless
C) Yes, they have two daughters
D) Yes, they have one son
  • 8. Who persuades Taeko to lie to her husband about Setsuko being ill?
A) Aya
B) Noboru
C) Fumi
D) Takako
  • 9. What animal do the women compare Mokichi to while at the spa?
A) An old turtle
B) A lazy cat
C) A slow moving black koi in the pond
D) A quiet dog
  • 10. Which sport do Taeko, Aya, and Takako attend a few days after the spa trip?
A) Tennis match
B) Baseball game
C) Sumo wrestling
D) Soccer match
  • 11. Who calls in the public announcement at the baseball game for Taeko to go home?
A) Noboru
B) Mokichi
C) Aya
D) Setsuko
  • 12. Why does Setsuko call Taeko home from the baseball game?
A) To tell her about an arranged marriage her parents want to set up
B) To report a fire in the kitchen
C) Because Mokichi was injured
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) Nikko
B) Oiso
C) Hakone
D) Kamakura
  • 15. What performance does Setsuko run away from during the arranged marriage meeting?
A) Bunraku puppet show
B) Kabuki theater
C) Noh theater
D) Classical concert
  • 16. Where are Mokichi and Noboru planning to go when Setsuko runs off to find them?
A) Auto races
B) Horse races
C) Bicycle races
D) Boat races
  • 17. What do Noboru and Setsuko eat and talk about at the noodle house?
A) Green tea over rice
B) Udon noodles
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 was with Setsuko without informing her
C) Because Mokichi sold their house
D) Because Mokichi lost his job
  • 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) Fishing by the river and wearing old clothes
D) Walking in the rain and reading comic books
  • 20. What class of train cars does Taeko prefer to travel in?
A) Second class
B) Third class
C) First class
D) Economy class
  • 21. To which country is Mokichi's company sending him on a business trip?
A) Argentina
B) Uruguay
C) United States
D) Brazil
  • 22. What happens to Mokichi's airplane two hours into the flight?
A) It crashes into the ocean
B) It is delayed at a refueling stop
C) It is forced to land in another city due to weather
D) It experiences mechanical troubles and returns to Tokyo
  • 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) Sashimi and rice
B) Ochazuke, rice with green tea
C) Tempura and miso soup
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 the quietest day of his life
C) It was the most exhausting day of the year
D) It was his happiest day since he married her
  • 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 apologize to Setsuko's parents
C) To stop smoking inferior cigarettes
D) To start traveling third-class with him
  • 27. Who is Setsuko confiding in at the end of the film regarding her aunt's changed attitude?
A) Aya
B) Takako
C) Noboru
D) Mokichi
  • 28. How does the final scene depict Setsuko and Noboru?
A) Boarding a train together for a honeymoon
B) Eating ramen noodles at a street stall
C) Walking away, arguing in a somewhat playful manner
D) Getting married at a traditional shrine
  • 29. Who substitutes the invalid Setsuko at the spa trip?
A) Takako
B) Aya
C) Fumi
D) Hana
  • 30. Who played Non-chan / Noboru Okada?
A) Eijirō Yanagi
B) Kōji Tsuruta
C) Shin Saburi
D) Chishū Ryū
  • 31. Which actor played Sadao Hirayama?
A) Chishū Ryū
B) Shin Saburi
C) Naosuke Yamauchi
D) Kōji Tsuruta
  • 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) Yūko Mochizuki
C) Yōko Kosono
D) Mie Kitahara
  • 34. Who played Chizu Yamauchi?
A) Keiko Tsushima
B) Kuniko Miyake
C) Chikage Awashima
D) Michiyo Kogure
  • 35. Who portrayed Naosuke Yamauchi?
A) Shin Saburi
B) Kōji Tsuruta
C) Chishū Ryū
D) Eijirō Yanagi
  • 36. Who played the Satake's maid Fumi?
A) Yōko Kosono
B) Keiko Tsushima
C) Yūko Mochizuki
D) Mie Kitahara
  • 37. Who played Sadao's wife Shige?
A) Kuniko Miyake
B) Yōko Kosono
C) Yūko Mochizuki
D) Chikage Awashima
  • 38. Who played the Waitress?
A) Yūko Mochizuki
B) Yōko Kosono
C) Keiko Tsushima
D) Mie Kitahara
  • 39. What was the original 1939 title of the script written by Yasujirō Ozu?
A) Boyfriend in Uruguay
B) Kareshi Nankin e Iku
C) O-chazuke no aji
D) What Did the Lady Forget?
  • 40. In the original 1939 script story, what was the man about to be sent abroad for?
A) Studying abroad
B) A traditional wedding
C) Military service
D) A business trip
  • 41. In what year was the script retitled 'O-chazuke no aji' and prepared for production?
A) 1950
B) 1940
C) 1973
D) 1939
  • 42. What did Ozu do after the military censors demanded script rewrites?
A) Shelved the project
B) Filmed it immediately
C) Changed the title back
D) Fled to Uruguay
  • 43. Who wrote a review of the film in 1973 calling it 'not great Ozu'?
A) Dave Kehr
B) David Bordwell
C) Vincent Canby
D) Junji Yoshida
  • 44. How did Vincent Canby describe the film's subplot about a girl refusing traditional wedding arrangements?
A) A masterpiece of melodrama
B) Almost formula comedy
C) Painfully subtle study
D) An elaborate technique
  • 45. According to Vincent Canby, Kogure and Saburi's characters become touched by what?
A) Cliché
B) A kind of nobility
C) Formula comedy
D) Deep bitterness
  • 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) Script censorship
B) Family relationships
C) Military service
D) Time lost
  • 48. Who marked the film as 'Recommended' in the Chicago Reader?
A) David Bordwell
B) Vincent Canby
C) Dave Kehr
D) Junji Yoshida
  • 49. What did Dave Kehr praise Ozu's melodramas for avoiding?
A) Subtle studies
B) Connecting scenes
C) Any sense of cliché
D) Traditional wedding arrangements
  • 50. Which company released a digitally restored version of the film on DVD and Blu-ray?
A) The Criterion Collection
B) Nanjing Productions
C) Mainichi Film Awards
D) Chicago Reader
  • 51. What 1939 feature directed by Yasujirō Ozu is included as an extra in the Criterion Collection release?
A) O-chazuke no aji
B) Kareshi Nankin e Iku
C) Boyfriend is going to Nanjing
D) What Did the Lady Forget?
  • 52. Who provided a video essay included in the home video release extras?
A) Junji Yoshida
B) Vincent Canby
C) Dave Kehr
D) David Bordwell
  • 53. Who wrote the essay featured in the booklet included in the Criterion Collection release?
A) Junji Yoshida
B) Dave Kehr
C) Vincent Canby
D) David Bordwell
  • 54. Who designed the cover for the Criterion Collection release?
A) David Bordwell
B) Katherine Lam
C) Junji Yoshida
D) Yasujirō Ozu
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