Tea Friends

Mana leads a group of young people who establish a groundbreaking call girl service for elderly people called Tea Friends. They run three-line advertisements in newspapers that innocently seek “friends for tea,” and elderly “tea girls” are sent to the men who respond. One day at a supermarket, Mana crosses paths with elderly shoplifter Matsuko Kunieda, and offers her a job. Matsuko has grown disillusioned with her lonely twilight years, but rediscovers joy in being needed by others, and gradually becomes one of the most popular tea girls. However, as the enterprise seem to be going from strength to strength, an incident occurs that attracts the attention of the police, and their bonds are revealed to be brittle. This film is a story that delves into the light and darkness of human relationships and their shallowness in our times, diverse ways of life in a rapidly aging society, and the true shape of family.