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French promotional poster for Café Lumière
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Directed by | Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
Produced by | Liao Ching-Song, Hideji Miyajima, Fumiko Osaka, Ichirô Yamamoto |
Written by | Hou Hsiao-Hsien (screenplay), Chu Tien-wen (screenplay) |
Starring |
Yo Hitoto Tadanobu Asano Masato Hagiwara Kimiko Yo Nenji Kobayashi |
Music by | Yōsui Inoue |
Cinematography | Mark Lee Ping Bin |
Edited by | Liao Ching-Song |
Distributed by | Shochiku |
Release date
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2003 |
Running time
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103 minutes |
Country | Japan, Taiwan |
Language | Japanese |
Café Lumière (珈琲時光 Kōhī Jikō?) is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien for Shochiku as homage to Yasujirō Ozu, with direct reference to the late director's Tokyo Story (1953). It premiered at a festival commemorating the centenary of Ozu's birth. It was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festival.
The story revolves around Yoko Inoue (played by Yo Hitoto), a young Japanese woman doing research on Taiwanese composer Jiang Wen-Ye, whose work is featured on the soundtrack. The late composer's Japanese wife and daughter also make appearances as themselves.
Café Lumière was placed at 98 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s.