Café Lumière (2004)

6.7/10 103 min Drama

Overview

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

Yo Hitoto

Yoko Inoue

Tadanobu Asano

Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara

Seiji

Kimiko Yo

Yoko's Stepmother

Nenji Kobayashi

Yoko's Father

Yôko Hoshi

Masaru Motegi

Fusako Urabe

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