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Kôhî jikô (2003)

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User Rating: 7.0/10 (753 votes)

Overview

Director:
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Writers:
Hsiao-hsien Hou (screenplay) &
T'ien-wen Chu (screenplay)
Release Date:
September 2004 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
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Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
art film devoid of life more

Cast

 (Credited cast)
Yo Hitoto ... Yôko
Tadanobu Asano ... Hajime Takeuchi
Masato Hagiwara ... Seiji
Kimiko Yo ... Yôko no keiba
Nenji Kobayashi ... Yôko no otôsan
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Café Lumière (International: English title) (USA)
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Runtime:
103 min | Japan:108 min | Argentina:108 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Country:
Japan | Taiwan
Language:
Japanese | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Tokyo, Japan
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Trivia:
This is Hsiao-hsien Hou's first film to be shot in Japan. more
Soundtrack:
Formosan Dance, Op.1 more

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7 out of 15 people found the following comment useful:-
art film devoid of life, 12 October 2006
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Author: Roland E. Zwick (magneteach@aol.com) from United States

A Japanese movie with a French title, "Café Lumiere" is a desultory tale of a young pregnant woman and her friendship with a local bookstore proprietor. As the movie is almost militantly anti-narrative in its stance, there really isn't much more one can provide in the way of helpful plot summary than that.

Director Hsiao-hsien Hou has opted for a Spartan style of film-making that hearkens back to such early Japanese masters as Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi. Each scene consists of a single medium or long shot with no close-ups or edits whatsoever. The result is that we become so detached from the characters on screen that we find ourselves unengaged in their problems and their fates. And this turns out to be a particularly serious problem in this case because the spare screenplay offers us so little of interest to start with. The story consists mainly of Yoko wandering around the city or moping in her apartment as she goes about the tasks of her daily life. She rides on trains, entertains her visiting parents, spends infrequent moments with her storeowner friend - and that's about it: no revelatory conversations, no insights into character, no point or purpose beyond the prosaic surface. Admittedly, some of the compositions are stunning and the style is intriguing and hypnotic at first, but it soon loses its charm as the tedium of the narrative (or non-narrative) takes over.

The acting is consistently understated and naturalistic, but in a movie in which everybody just looks preoccupied and pensive, there really isn't much call for anything else.

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