Café Lumière

• Rated 6.9 out of 10
• Movie
• 2004
• 1h 43m
• Drama

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.

Director

Hou Hsiao-hsien

Starring

Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo