Film · Drama, Comedy
8 ½ Women (1999)
If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?
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
- Writers
- Peter Greenaway
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Release date
- May 22, 1999
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- Manna FujiwaraGiulietta/Half Woman
Natacha AmalGiaconda
Barbara SarafianClothilde- Ryota TsuchiyaSimato's Brother
- Myriam MullerMarianne, Emmenthal Maid
- Pol HoffmannMourner
Tony KayeMourner
Ann Overstall ComfortMourner- Malcolm TurnerUndertaker
