Tea Friends
2023, Japanese. Directed by Bunji Sotoyama.
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.
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 4 February 2023
- Original title
- 茶飲友達
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Bunji Sotoyama
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Tea Friends runs 136 minutes (2h 16m).
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Tea Friends isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 4 February 2023. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Tea Friends?
Tea Friends (2023) was directed by Bunji Sotoyama and stars Rei Okamoto, Maki Isonishi, Tetsu Watanabe.