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About
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.
Theatrical
May 22, 1999
Box Office
$438K
Budget
$6.0M
Return
0.1x
DVD / Blu-ray
Oct 10, 2000
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Delux Productions, Kasander & Wigman Productions, Continent Film GmbH, Movie Masters, Woodline Productions
Cast
Full credits →J
John Standing
Philip Emmenthal
M
Matthew Delamere
Storey Emmenthal
V
Vivian Wu
Kito
A
Annie Shizuka Inoh
Simato
T
Toni Collette
Griselda
C
Claire Johnston
Amelia, Philip's Wife
P
Polly Walker
Palmira
A
Amanda Plummer
Beryl
E
Elizabeth Berrington
Celeste
D
Don Warrington
Simon
K
Kirina Mano
Mio
N
Natacha Amal
Giaconda
B
Barbara Sarafian
Clothilde
R
Ryota Tsuchiya
Simato's Brother
M
Myriam Muller
Marianne, Emmenthal Maid
P
Pol Hoffmann
Mourner
T
Tony Kaye
Mourner
A
Ann Overstall Comfort
Mourner
M
Malcolm Turner
Undertaker
P
Patrick Hastert
Man in Street
