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Café Lumière (珈琲時光, Kōhī Jikō) is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien for Shochiku as homage to Yasujirō Ozu, with direct reference to the late director's Tokyo Story (1953). It premiered at a festival commemorating the centenary of Ozu's birth. It was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festival.

Café Lumière
French promotional poster for Café Lumière
Directed by	Hou Hsiao-hsien
Written by	Hou Hsiao-hsien (screenplay), Chu T’ien-wen (screenplay)
Produced by	Liao Ching-Song Hideji Miyajima Fumiko Osaka Ichirō Yamamoto
Starring	Yo Hitoto Tadanobu Asano Masato Hagiwara Kimiko Yo Nenji Kobayashi
Cinematography	Mark Lee Ping Bin
Edited by	Liao Ching-Song
Music by	Yōsui Inoue
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	2003
Running time	103 minutes
Countries	Japan, Taiwan
Language	Japanese

Plot

The story revolves around Yoko Inoue (played by Yo Hitoto), a young Japanese woman doing research on Taiwanese composer Jiang Wen-Ye, whose work is featured on the soundtrack. The late composer's Japanese wife and daughter also make appearances as themselves.

Cast

• Yo Hitoto - Yoko Inoue (井上 陽子 Inoue Yōko)
• Tadanobu Asano - Hajime Takeuchi (竹内 肇 Takeuchi Hajime)
• Masato Hagiwara - Seiji
• Kimiko Yo - Yoko's stepmother
• Nenji Kobayashi - Yoko's father

Reception

Café Lumière was placed at 98 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s.[1]

In 2019, director Steve McQueen named it as the best film of the 21st century, describing it as "[a] film that happens without you knowing."[2]

Notes

External links

• Café Lumière at IMDb

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