Café Lumière (2004)

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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.

• Released: 2004-09-01
• Genres: Drama
• Runtime: 1h 43m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 6.8/10 from 65 votes

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Top 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

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