Café Lumière (2004)

  • NR
  • 10/16/2004 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 43m

Overview

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research

Hou Hsiao-hsien

Director, Writer

Chu Tien-wen

Writer

Cast

Yo Hitoto's headshot

Yo Hitoto

Yoko Inoue
Tadanobu Asano's headshot

Tadanobu Asano

Hajime Takeuchi
Masato Hagiwara's headshot

Masato Hagiwara

Seiji
Kimiko Yo's headshot

Kimiko Yo

Yoko's Stepmother
Nenji Kobayashi's headshot

Nenji Kobayashi

Yoko's Father
Yôko Hoshi's headshot

Yôko Hoshi

Keiichi Asada's headshot

Keiichi Asada

Yukio Endô's headshot

Yukio Endô

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