Released:
2004-09-01

Overview:
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.

Director:
Hou Hsiao-hsien

Runtime:
1h 43min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Yo Hitoto
  as
  Yoko Inoue
• 
  Tadanobu Asano
  as
  Hajime Takeuchi
• 
  Masato Hagiwara
  as
  Seiji
• 
  Kimiko Yo
  as
  Yoko's Stepmother
• 
  Nenji Kobayashi
  as
  Yoko's Father