Café Lumière

Café Lumière (2004) is a drama directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien rated 6.8/10.

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.