8 ½ Women (1999)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	John Standing	...	Philip Emmenthal
	Matthew Delamere	...	Storey Emmenthal
	Vivian Wu	...	Kito
	Annie Shizuka Inoh	...	Simato (as Shizuka Inoh)
	Barbara Sarafian	...	Clothilde
	Kirina Mano	...	Mio
	Toni Collette	...	Griselda / Sister Concordia
	Amanda Plummer	...	Beryl
	Natacha Amal	...	Giaconda the Baby Factory
	Manna Fujiwara	...	Giulietta / Half Woman
	Polly Walker	...	Palmira
	Elizabeth Berrington	...	Celeste, Emmenthal Maid
	Myriam Muller	...	Marianne, Emmenthal Maid
	Don Warrington	...	Simon
	Claire Johnston	...	Amelia, Philip's Wife

Storyline

After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure. After about a year, the women begin to assert their own power. Side adventures pre-figure the household's breakup, and the women depart in one way or another, one at at time. Philip's fate is in the hands of Palmira, his favorite. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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