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