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Café Lumière (2004)

Film · 2004 · 103 min · NR · 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.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien

Starring Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo, Nenji Kobayashi, Yôko Hoshi, Keiichi Asada, Yukio Endô

Release dates in the United States

In cinemas16 October 2004
Digital releaseNot listed
Physical release27 December 2005
First release anywhere1 September 2004

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