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

00:09:38 At the Olympics Arts Festival

00:12:07 Yes, goblins are said to take the place of babies

00:19:07 Flatfish

00:23:18 Sure

00:26:57 I'll wipe it off

00:33:50 She's sound asleep

00:36:06 Well... A girl came into his bookshop just like that...

00:38:52 Why?

00:42:36 You know, it came back to me

00:45:03 I'm researching a man named Mr Jiang Wenye

00:48:11 Please take all your belongings with you when leaving the train

00:53:47 Facing the side road?

00:59:16 Tomorrow?

01:03:45 Great, isn't it?

01:05:12 Trains everywhere

01:06:45 Someone might need to hear a tape as evidence of something

01:12:42 He did so many things: Photographs, paintings, music...

01:20:15 Not much in the fridge

01:22:28 Really?

01:25:47 Excuse me... Inoue, from next door

01:27:01 I'm ashamed...

01:29:08 - They are? - Yes

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 line01:29:08

Production Record

DirectorHou Hsiao-hsien

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes3,419