8 ½ Women (1999)
19992h 1mRDramaComedy
After his wife dies, middle-aged businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight-and-a-half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. As a year passes, the women begin asserting their own power.
Cast
John StandingPhilip Emmenthal
Matthew DelamereStorey Emmenthal
Vivian WuKito
Annie Shizuka InohSimato
Toni ColletteGriselda
Claire JohnstonAmelia, Philip's Wife
Polly WalkerPalmira
Amanda PlummerBeryl
Elizabeth BerringtonCeleste
Don WarringtonSimon
Kirina ManoMio- MManna FujiwaraGiulietta/Half Woman
Natacha AmalGiaconda
Barbara SarafianClothilde- RRyota TsuchiyaSimato's Brother
- MMyriam MullerMarianne, Emmenthal Maid
- PPol HoffmannMourner
Tony KayeMourner
Crew
- Director
- Peter Greenaway
- Writers
- Peter Greenaway
- Music
- Frank Loesser
- Cinematography
- Reinier van BrummelenSacha Vierny
- Editing
- Elmer Leupen
Details
- Released
- May 22, 1999
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Delux Productions, Kasander & Wigman Productions, Continent Film GmbH
- IMDb
- tt0154443
