
“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.
Release Date: 5/22/1999
Runtime: 121 minutes
Languages: English, Italian, Japanese, Latin
Director: Peter Greenaway
Budget: $6.0M
Revenue: $0.4M
Companies: Delux Productions, Kasander & Wigman Productions, Continent Film GmbH, Movie Masters, Woodline Productions
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Netherlands
2009