Café Lumière
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Produced by Shochiku, 3H Productions
A contemplative, visually attentive portrait of a woman navigating pregnancy, artistic inquiry, and an unexpected connection amid Tokyo's layered past and present.
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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