Café Lumière

Name: Café Lumière
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Released: 2004
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo, Nenji Kobayashi

2004 · 103 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 3,419 VOTES · DIR. Hou Hsiao-hsien

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 570 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:35 Hajime-chan? Yes, I'm back

00:04:05 Anyhow, I'm still having these weird dreams

00:09:40 The Olympics?

00:12:17 Changeling stories... it's like one of those

00:19:12 Nikujaga?

00:23:36 Thanks

00:29:04 I'm borrowing the bike

00:34:29 Thank you so much

00:36:19 People are saying that she's after his property

00:39:51 but never watched.

00:43:14 Hello? Yes...

00:45:33 Did your father ever mention him?

00:51:52 What's the matter?

00:54:57 Ever heard of it?

01:01:42 Something wrong?

01:04:19 It's quite something

01:05:50 No reason? No reason

01:07:51 Welcome Good afternoon

01:13:39 I still have a copy hidden away somewhere

01:21:23 Found it?

01:23:45 A little

01:26:32 Alright, wait a moment

01:28:30 - They produce umbrellas? - Right

01:43:07 The end

Cast & Characters

Yo Hitoto Yôko Tadanobu Asano Hajime Takeuchi Masato Hagiwara Seiji Kimiko Yo Yôko no keiba Nenji Kobayashi Yôko no otôsan Keiichi Asada Yukio Endô Yôko Hoshi Mikiko Kakizawa Hiroko Kumada

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed570

Dialogue density5.5 lines / min

First line00:01:35

Final line01:43:07

Production Record

DirectorHou Hsiao-hsien

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes3,419