Café Lumière

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 byHou Hsiao-hsien
Written byHou Hsiao-hsien (screenplay), Chu T’ien-wen (screenplay)
Produced by
  • Liao Ching-Song
  • Hideji Miyajima
  • Fumiko Osaka
  • Ichirō Yamamoto
Starring
CinematographyMark Lee Ping Bin
Edited byLiao Ching-Song
Music byYōsui Inoue
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
2003
Running time
103 minutes
CountriesJapan, Taiwan
LanguageJapanese

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

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
  1. "Best of the Aughts: Film". Slant Magazine. 7 February 2010. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
  2. "The directors' cut: film-makers choose the best movies of the century so far". The Guardian. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2019.


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