8 ½ Women

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.

Director: Peter Greenaway

Cast: John Standing, Matthew Delamere, Vivian Wu, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Toni Collette, Claire Johnston, Polly Walker, Amanda Plummer

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