Café Lumière(2004)

movie - first aired/released 2004-09-01 - audience 6.8

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien

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.