Some Japanese Tea Enthusiasts are now making a film “Japanese Tea Documentary”. Their goal is to share the current outlook of Japanese tea worldwide from the perspective of tea lovers.
The authors describe their passions on the announcement page of crowdfunding.
Mr. Takatsu, the director and head author of the film, aims the Japanese Tea Documentary enable to impress and inspire many people, and as a consequence, their inspiration lead themselves to the profound meet to the subtle Japanese teas.
Mr. Takatsu explained his goals in the project of Japanese Tea Documentary at Tea For Peace 4th.
His passion led various tea lovers, including me, to invest in and support the project. Mr. Takatsu organized a lunch tea party at an event “Tea For Peace 4th” with his “tea mates”, including restaurant owner, instructor of Japanese cuisines, flower shop master, Senke tea master, tea merchants, amateur tea scientist etc.
The relationships constructed on such occasion is one of the purposes of his project.
A tiny tea master served a fine cup of Sencha.
A restaurant chef and a instructor of Japanese cuisine cooked a subtle and profound dishes using Japanese tea.
Onigiri rice balls wrapped with wet Tencha tea leaves.
Terine of spring vegetables and tea leaves.
The crowdfunding of the film has some rewards according to the investment as follow.
- Special collaboration seminar organized by a Japanese Tea Café “Saten” – 20,000yen
- Special Kyusu tea pot made by the young craftsman. – 20,000yen
- Ticket for the tea party organized by Oscar Brekell. – 20,000yen
- The screening right of the documentary movie for 3 days. – 30,000yen
- A visiting workshop of Japanese tea by tea specialists. – 30,000yen
- Kyusu Base “Potan” – A special craft for drying Kyusu tea pot. – 50,000yen
- Original pair of Kyusu tea pot made by young craftsman. – 50,000yen
- Full-set of rewards – 100,000yen
Every reward has common profits; 3 kinds of specialty Japanese tea appeared in the film, DVD of the film containing director’s cut scenes, listing the name of investor on the end roll, listing a favorite picture related to Japanese tea of each investor on the end roll.
Each reward is very valuable for tea devotees. Especially, “Special collaboration seminar organized by a Japanese Tea Café “Saten”” and “Ticket for the tea party organized by Oscar Brekell.” are worth to fund for those who want to begin tea business in Japan.
I choose “Ticket for the tea party organized by Oscar Brekell.” and “Kyusu Base “Potan” – A special craft for drying Kyusu tea pot”.
In response to the authors’ passions, many prominent persons of Japanese tea business uploaded their encouraging message for the documentary film on youtube as follows.
Florent Weugue – A French Japanese Tea Instructor on Thes du Japon
As posted before, Florent is the first French person to get the license of Japanese Tea Instructor. Now he sells various specialty teas brought from all around Japan based on his strict judgement at the retail shop on Yanaka region in Tokyo.
In the encouraging message on the youtube, he said that this documentary is the first film in the world to describe Japanese tea from the various perspectives of those who are related to Japanese tea.
Ota Katsunori – Tea Farmer of Kaneta Otaen
Mr. Ota is one of the most prominent tea farmers in Japan. He has won various prizes, including MAFF award, Emperor’s cup etc., in several times. On the encouraging message movie on youtube, he talks in front of the array of prizes.
Especially I love his special Sencha matured at the Akiha Shrine on the top of Mt. Akiha. His philosophy of tea production can impress us. As he announced on the movie, it will be a great experience to visit his tea farms on the Tenryu Tea Estate.
Masanori TADA – the director of TADA Seicha
Mr. Tada, the Director of Products Development Division of Tada Seicha.
Mr. Tada is an insightful business person in Japanese tea industry. He is often invited to some seminars related to Japanese tea. In the past seminar, I got some insights from him as posted before. His challenge to extend the world of Japanese tea will go on and we can see some aspects of his challenge in the film.
Mr. Watada – The owner tea master of “ChaChaNoMa” in Omotesando
Mr. Watada is a pioneer of specialty tea business in Japan. He deals with various excellent teas which are produced in the prominent single tea farm or estate using single tea cultivar. When I visited the café “ChaChaNoMa”, I was delighted with the fantastic steeps prepared by Mr. Watada, first second and third infusions of ‘Kondo Wase’ cultivar. He must know the best ways to brew each variety of tea.
Surprisingly we can enjoy eating loose leaf tea itself in ChaChaNoMa. The tea leaf for eating is served with the “business card” of each cultivar, where we know more about the cultivar.
I’d like more tea lover to support this project worldwide The campaign period of this crowdfunding will go on till 13th August.
I hope the Japanese Tea Documentary will provide many people with various benefits such as a great impression, inspiration, business insights, opportunities to communicate with creative persons and so on.
< Information of the project of “Japanese Tea Documentary” >
- Director : Makoto TAKATSU.
- Campaign period : till 13th August, 2019.
- Crowdfunding platform : Motion Gallery
- Announce Page : https://motion-gallery.net/projects/teadocumentary