
Café Lumière
Sep 01 2004
•2h 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.
Cast
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Yo Hitoto
Yoko Inoue

Tadanobu Asano
Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara
Seiji

Kimiko Yo
Yoko's Stepmother
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