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Kôhî jikô
2003, Film, 108 min, Drama, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 67
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.
Directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Cast
- Yo Hitoto as Yoko Inoue
- Tadanobu Asano as Hajime Takeuchi
- Masato Hagiwara as Seiji
- Kimiko Yo as Yôko no keiba
- Nenji Kobayashi as Yôko no otôsan
- Keiichi Asada
- Yukio Endô
- Yôko Hoshi
- Mikiko Kakizawa
- Hiroko Kumada
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