8½ Women
- Original title
- 8½ Womenaka
- AKA
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- 8 1/2 Women
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 120 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- John Standing
- Matthew Delamere
- Vivian Wu
- Toni Collette
- Amanda Plummer
- Polly Walker
- Annie Yi
- Barbara Sarafian
- Natacha Amal
- Kirina Mano
- Manna Fujiwara
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- Music
Various- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production United Kingdom-Netherlands-Germany-Luxembourg;
- Genre
- Drama | Prostitution
- Synopsis
- After his wife dies, 55-year-old 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. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure. After about a year, the women begin to assert their own power. Side adventures pre-figure the household's breakup, and the women depart in one way or another, one at at time. Philip's fate is in the hands of Palmira, his favorite.
- Awards
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1999: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)
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