Café Lumière

Sep 1, 2004

1h 43m

★ 6.7

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Shochiku

3H Productions

Sumitomo Corporation

The Asahi Shimbun

Eisei Gekijo

IMAGICA

Shimensoka

Café Lumière Trailers

Cast

Yoko Inoue

Yo Hitoto

Hajime Takeuchi

Tadanobu Asano

Seiji

Masato Hagiwara

Yoko's Stepmother

Kimiko Yo

Yoko's Father

Nenji Kobayashi

Yôko Hoshi

Keiichi Asada

Yukio Endô

Mikiko Kakizawa

Hiroko Kumada

Kikutarô Mitobe

Sumiko Mitobe

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