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Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004•1h 43m•6.7/10
Drama

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6.7/10(58)

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.

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Production

Shochiku, 3H Productions, Sumitomo Corporation, The Asahi Shimbun, Eisei Gekijo, IMAGICA, Shimensoka

Language

JA

Status

Released

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Cast

Yo Hitoto

Yo Hitoto

Yoko Inoue

Tadanobu Asano

Tadanobu Asano

Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara

Masato Hagiwara

Seiji

Kimiko Yo

Kimiko Yo

Yoko's Stepmother

Nenji Kobayashi

Nenji Kobayashi

Yoko's Father

Yôko Hoshi

Yôko Hoshi

Keiichi Asada

Yukio Endô

Mikiko Kakizawa

Hiroko Kumada

Kikutarô Mitobe

Sumiko Mitobe

Masaru Motegi

Masaru Motegi

Hiroko​ Ninomiya

Yasuko Ogata

Shigehiko Renjitsu

Mutsuko Shio

Fusako Urabe

Fusako Urabe

Motoomi Yano

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