Bessho Tea Factory

Name: Bessho Tea Factory
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-06-24
Duration: 64 min
Rating: 8.5

天竜区奥領家大沢　別所製茶工場

8.5 (2)2014-06-241h 4m

Documentary

Overview

A documentary directed by Hori Teiichi who was a production assistant on the 1994 documentary Otentousama ga Hoshii and has worked in a wide variety of genres from pink films to ordinary theatrical releases. The lifestyle and scenery of Osawa, a village situated 740 meters up on the mountainous slopes of Hamamatsu city's northern region in Shizuoka Prefecture, are the focus of this first installment to the "Tenryu-ku" series. It straightforwardly captures the tea harvest in late May and the tea processing conducted in a factory while showcasing mist shrouded tea fields drummed by rain as well as the beauty of the glistening green of the tea leaf shoots.