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

Tadanobu Asano

Hajime Takeuchi

Masato Hagiwara

Kimiko Yo

Yoko's Stepmother

Nenji Kobayashi

Yôko Hoshi

Masaru Motegi

Fusako Urabe

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