Café Lumière

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 (2003)
Running time
103 minutes
CountriesJapan, Taiwan
LanguageJapanese

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 Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. The film, with an all-Japanese cast, is set in Tokyo, where it was shot.