Movie
Café Lumière
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2004-09-01
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Shochiku, 3H Productions, Sumitomo Corporation, The Asahi Shimbun, Eisei Gekijo, IMAGICA, Shimensoka
- Country
- Japan, Taiwan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Yo Hitoto as Yoko Inoue
- Tadanobu Asano as Hajime Takeuchi
- Masato Hagiwara as Seiji
- Kimiko Yo as Yoko's Stepmother
- Nenji Kobayashi as Yoko's Father
- Yôko Hoshi
- Keiichi Asada
- Yukio Endô
- Mikiko Kakizawa
- Hiroko Kumada
- Kikutarô Mitobe
- Sumiko Mitobe
Crew
- Hou Hsiao-hsien - Director
- Hou Hsiao-hsien - Writer
- Chu Tien-Wen - Writer
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