Café Lumière (2004)1h43
Drama
Director Hou Hsiao-hsien (6.7 avg)
Also directed The Assassin, Millennium Mambo, To Each His Own Cinema, and 19 more
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.
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Cast
Yo Hitoto
Tadanobu Asano
Masato Hagiwara
Kimiko Yo
Nenji Kobayashi
Yôko Hoshi- Keiichi Asada
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