The same is true of some movies, and “After Yang,” the second feature from the Korean American writer-director Kogonada ( “Columbus”), is very much its own subtle, bittersweet and curiously intoxicating brew. Tea, easy to enjoy, is rather harder to put into words. Crediting these insights to a 2007 documentary, “All in This Tea” (and doing a damn good Werner Herzog impression), Jake eventually stops talking and takes a sip. What sets one kind of tea apart from another? The taste, certainly, but also the fullness of what that taste conveys: the leaves that were harvested and processed the soil from which the plants sprang the rain that watered the soil the people who cultivated the soil and their entire culture, history and way of life. Min), into some of the mysteries of his trade. About halfway through “After Yang,” an exquisite dispatch from a hazily defined future, Jake (Colin Farrell), a tea-shop proprietor, initiates his son, Yang (Justin H.
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