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Café Lumière(2004)
Status: Released
Date: 2004-09-01
68%
51 Votes
Time: 1h 43m
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
Languages: English, Japanese.
Countries:
Japan,
Taiwan
ProductionCompanies: 
3H Productions
Shimensoka
Movie: Café Lumière
Top 10 Billed Cast
一青窈
Yoko Inoue
浅野忠信
Hajime Takeuchi
萩原聖人
Seiji
余貴美子
Yoko's Stepmother
小林稔侍
Yoko's Father
星ようこ
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