Café Lumière

6.7 / 10

(56 votes)

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.

Country:

Japan,

Taiwan

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

103 minutes

Year:

2004

Director:

Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Company:

Shochiku,

3H Productions,

Sumitomo Corporation,

The Asahi Shimbun,

Eisei Gekijo,

IMAGICA,

Shimensoka

Cast:
Yo Hitoto

Yoko Inoue

Tadanobu Asano

Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara

Seiji

Kimiko Yo

Yoko's Stepmother

Nenji Kobayashi

Yoko's Father

Crew:
Hou Hsiao-hsien

Director

Mark Lee Ping-Bing

Director of Photography

Hou Hsiao-hsien

Writer

Ichiro Yamamoto

Producer

Liao Ching-Sung

Producer