Café Lumière
2004 · directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Rating
- 75/100
- Hit
- no
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.
Café Lumière (2004), directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, rates 75/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Yo Hitoto
- Tadanobu Asano
- Masato Hagiwara
- Kimiko Yo
- Nenji Kobayashi
- Yôko Hoshi
- Keiichi Asada
- Yukio Endô
- Mikiko Kakizawa
- Hiroko Kumada
Crew
- Mark Lee Ping-Bing — Director of Photography
- Liao Ching-sung — Editor
- Chu Tien-Wen — Writer
- Hou Hsiao-hsien — Writer
More from Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Dust in the Wind (1986) — 86/100 · hit
- A City of Sadness (1989) — 86/100 · hit
- A Summer at Grandpa's (1984) — 85/100 · hit
- The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985) — 84/100 · hit
- The Puppetmaster (1993) — 81/100 · hit
- To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — 79/100
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