It is. It's 2 1/2 hours long but never gets boring. Few directors can pull that off, Kitano.. Bergman.. Sidney Lumet.. Tarkovsky.. Scorsese.. and Bela Tarr are the only ones who come to mind immediately. I really don't have a short attention span, I will still often call a film overlong or boring simply because so many films have SO MUCH in them that they could have chopped up. TASTE OF TEA is the quickest 2 1/2 hours I've ever witnessed in a Japanese film, it almost feels too short.
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