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.
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Verdict: Flop
> Peter Greenaway (Director)
> Reinier van Brummelen (Director of Photography)
> Sacha Vierny (Director of Photography)
> Sara Meerman (First Assistant Director)
> Kôji Kobayashi (First Assistant Director)
> Shin Mizuguchi (Second Assistant Director)
> Aimi O (Second Assistant Director)
> Anna Worthington (Third Assistant Director)
> Peter Greenaway (Screenplay)