Café Lumière(2004)
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.
Movie: Café Lumière
Top 10 Billed Cast
Yoko Inoue
Hajime Takeuchi
Seiji
Yoko's Stepmother
Yoko's Father
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