| Café Lumière | |
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French promotional poster for Café Lumière |
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| Directed by | Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
| Produced by | Liao Ching-Song, Miyajima Hideji, Osaka Fumiko, Yamamoto Ichirô |
| Written by | Hou Hsiao-Hsien (screenplay), Chu T'ien-wen (screenplay) |
| Starring | Hitoto Yo Asano Tadanobu Hagiwara Masato Yo Kimiko Kobayashi Nenji |
| Music by | Inoue Yousui |
| Cinematography | Mark Lee Ping Bin |
| Editing by | Liao Ching-Song |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
| Release date(s) | 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 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 work, as an artistically significant step for Hou, and it was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festival.
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The story revolves around a young Japanese woman (played by Hitoto Yo) 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.
Café Lumière was placed at 98 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s.[1]
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