Café Lumière

Café Lumière
French promotional poster for Café Lumière
Directed by	Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Produced by	Liao Ching-Song, Hideji Miyajima, Fumiko Osaka, Ichirô Yamamoto
Written by	Hou Hsiao-Hsien (screenplay), Chu T'ien-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 dates	2003
Running time	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 Yasujiro 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.

Plot

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.

Cast

• Yo Hitoto - Yoko Inoue (井上 陽子 Inoue Yōko)
• Tadanobu Asano - Hajime Takeuchi (竹内 肇 Takeuchi Hajime)
• Masato Hagiwara - Seiji
• Kimiko Yo - Yôko no keiba
• Nenji Kobayashi - Yôko no otôsan

Reception

Café Lumière was placed at 98 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s.^[1]

Notes

1. "Best of the Aughts: Film". Slant Magazine. Retrieved February 10, 2010.

External links

• Café Lumière at the Internet Movie Database