05 Dec 2003
The Station Agent
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Café Lumière
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.
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一青窈 Yoko Inoue
浅野忠信 Hajime Takeuchi
萩原聖人 Seiji
余貴美子 Yoko's Stepmother
小林稔侍 Yoko's Father
星ようこ Keiichi Asada Yukio Endô Mikiko Kakizawa Hiroko Kumada Kikutarô Mitobe Sumiko Mitobe 
茂木優 二宮弘子 Yasuko Ogata Shigehiko Renjitsu Mutsuko Shio 
占部房子 Motoomi Yano
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