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Feature film — 2004

Café Lumière (2004)

6.91h 43mDrama

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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A high-signal pick with 69 votes.

Shochiku / 3H Productions / Sumitomo Corporation / The Asahi Shimbun / Eisei Gekijo / IMAGICA / Shimensoka

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Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien

On screen

Cast & crew

Yo Hitoto as Yoko Inoue

Yo Hitoto

Yoko Inoue

Tadanobu Asano as Hajime Takeuchi

Tadanobu Asano

Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara as Seiji

Masato Hagiwara

Seiji

Kimiko Yo as Yoko's Stepmother

Kimiko Yo

Yoko's Stepmother

Nenji Kobayashi as Yoko's Father

Nenji Kobayashi

Yoko's Father

Yôko Hoshi as

Yôko Hoshi

K

Keiichi Asada

Y

Yukio Endô

M

Mikiko Kakizawa

H

Hiroko Kumada

K

Kikutarô Mitobe

S

Sumiko Mitobe

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