Café Lumière (2004)
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
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Yo Hitoto as Yoko Inoue |
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Tadanobu Asano as Hajime Takeuchi |
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Masato Hagiwara as Seiji |
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Kimiko Yo as Yoko's Stepmother |
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Nenji Kobayashi as Yoko's Father |
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Yôko Hoshi as |
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Keiichi Asada as |
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Yukio Endô as |
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Mikiko Kakizawa as |
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Hiroko Kumada as |
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Kikutarô Mitobe as |
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Sumiko Mitobe as |
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Masaru Motegi as |
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Hiroko Ninomiya as |
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Yasuko Ogata as |
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Shigehiko Renjitsu as |
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Mutsuko Shio as |
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Fusako Urabe as |
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Motoomi Yano as |
| Directing | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Director |
| Camera | Mark Lee Ping-Bing | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Writer |
| Writing | Chu Tien-Wen | Writer |
| Production | Liao Ching-sung | Producer |
| Production | Hideji Miyajima | Producer |
| Production | Ichiro Yamamoto | Producer |
| Editing | Liao Ching-sung | Editor |
| Art | Toshiharu Aida | Production Design |
| Art | Toshiharu Aida | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kazumi Hoshino | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yôji Yamada | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kikuko Muramoto | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yuko Takamori | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Tu Duu-chih | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Yosui Inoue | Music |
| Production | Fumiko Osaka | Producer |
| Production | Nobuyuki Kajikawa | Line Producer |
| Directing | Fumio Nomoto | Assistant Director |
| Lighting | Tan Chi Liang | Gaffer |
| Sound | Yosui Inoue | Songs |
| Art | Yukio Kumagai | Title Designer |