Café Lumière
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French promotional poster for Café Lumière |
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Directed by | Hsiao-hsien Hou |
Produced by | Ching-Song Liao, Hideji Miyajima, Fumiko Osaka, Ichirô Yamamoto |
Written by | Hsiao-hsien Hou (screenplay), T'ien-wen Chu (screenplay) |
Starring | Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo, Nenji Kobayashi, |
Music by | Yousui Inoue |
Cinematography | Pin Bing Lee |
Editing by | Ching-Song Liao |
Release date(s) | 2003 |
Running time | 103 min. |
Country | Japan, Taiwan |
Language | Japanese |
IMDb profile |
Café Lumière (珈琲時光) 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 master's Tokyo Story (1953). It premiered at a festival commemorating the centenary of Ozu's birth. Many critics hailed the film reminiscent of Ozu's works as an artistically significant step for Hou, and it was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festival.