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Aug 10, 2022 · The best way to describe the plot of Café Lumiere is to see the film is to pretend that you happen to be briefly passing by our protagonist, Yoko (in fact, even the word ‘protagonist’ is questionable since Hou allows Yoko to blend into the crowd at various points throughout the film).
Language. Japanese. 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.
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By Arthi Vasudevan. To honour iconic Japanese film‐maker Yasujiro Ozu in the year 2003, the year of his birth centenary, critically acclaimed Taiwanese film‐maker Hou Hsiao‐Hsien co‐wrote and directed Café Lumière: An Homage to Yasujiro Ozu1, his first film set completely in Japan.
Oct 14, 2004 · Inspired by the centenary of Japanese master filmmaker Yasujirô Ozu’s birth, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s poetic Café Lumière charts the uneasy maturation of a Japanese reporter named Yoko (Yo Hitoto) as she researches an article on real-life Taiwanese musician Jiang Wenye and copes with an unexpected pregnancy—and looming single-motherhood—that’s frowned ...
Jun 10, 2005 · "Café Lumière" stands in relation to "Tokyo Story" as a faint, diminished echo. It is nonetheless a fascinating curiosity, a chance to witness one major filmmaker paying tribute to another in...
Dec 2, 2005 · Share story. By. Ted Fry. “Cafe Lumiere” explicitly billed itself as an homage to the late Japanese auteur Yasujiro Ozu in honor of his 100th birthday in 2004. But this beautiful film by...
Apr 2, 2015 · It’s set in Tokyo and tells the story of a young woman (Yôko) whose parents want her to get married, a common enough Ozu situation. The twist is that Yôko is pregnant and has absolutely no interest in marrying the father (“because he’s too close to his mother” she gives as a particularly biting explanation to her own mother).
