Taste of Cherry
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1997 |
| Country | Iran |
| Director | Abbas Kiarostami |
| Cast | Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori |
| Genre | Drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Taste of Cherry | – |
| Español | El sabor de las cerezas | El sabor de las cerezas |
| Français | Le Goût de la cerise | Le Goût de la cerise |
| Deutsch | Der Geschmack der Kirsche | Der Geschmack der Kirsche |
| Português | Gosto de Cereja | Gosto de Cereja |
| Italiano | Il sapore della ciliegia | Il sapore della ciliegia |
| Русский | Вкус вишни | Vkus vishni |
| 中文（简体） | 樱桃的滋味 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 櫻桃的滋味 | – |
| 한국어 | 체리 향기 | Cheri hyanggi |
| ไทย | Taste of Cherry | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Hương vị anh đào | Hương vị anh đào |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Taste of Cherry | – |
| 日本語 | 桜桃の味 | おうとうのあじ |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which chosen death and the small evidence of life collide within a search for a final witness
■ Synopsis
A man drives through the outskirts of Tehran seeking someone to help him carry out and confirm his planned death.
■ RECIPE Tags
#ChosenDeath #WitnessToExistence #LifeEvidence #ExistentialLimit #MinimalSalvation
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Death as private decision
Reason: The protagonist treats death as a chosen act, yet the act still requires another person’s presence.
Related Film: The Sea Inside - Middle: Witness as ethical interruption
Reason: The search for assistance turns into a series of confrontations with conscience, faith, fear, and responsibility.
Related Film: A Man Escaped - Core: Life restored by minimal sensation
Reason: The argument for living does not arrive as doctrine, but through a small concrete taste that interrupts final despair.
Related Film: Ikiru
■ Secondary Axes
- Road as moral inquiry: Movement through space becomes a sequence of ethical encounters rather than plot progression.
Related Film: Paris, Texas - Open ending and viewer responsibility: The film transfers final judgment from narrative closure to the viewer’s own existential position.
Related Film: Certified Copy
■ Person
- Director: Abbas Kiarostami
- Cast: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori
■ Structural Tags
#WitnessStructure #ExistentialThreshold #OpenJudgment
■ Attribute Tags
#IranianFilm #DramaFilm #MinimalistCinema
