Nearing the end of university, Noriko is not having much luck finding either herself or a job when her mother suddenly suggests she study tea ceremony. Noriko is cool to the idea, but her cousin Michiko likes it and suggests they both go. Nearby lives Mrs Takeda, a tea ceremony teacher who, as people say, is not ‘your ordinary old lady.’ In the following years Noriko drifts from job to job, loses a boyfriend and then her father. The only constant in her life is the tea ceremony, in whose tightly prescribed movements and rhythms she eventually finds a unique sense of freedom.
“/…/ Every Day a Good Day knowledgeably and gorgeously shows how tea ceremony is far more than a feudal-era relic trotted out for bemused observers. For the heroine and her fellow followers of sadō (the way of tea), it is a shining embodiment of mindfulness — the philosophy and practice of living in the moment that is both timeless and trendy.” (Mark Schilling, The Japan Times)
Tatsushi Ohmori
Born in 1970 in Tokyo, Japan. While in college, he began making 8 mm films, but started working as an actor after graduation. Today enjoying the repute of an acclaimed Japanese director, screenwriter and actor, Ohmori directed his first film, The Whispering of the Gods, in 2005.