
If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?
1999 2 hours 1 minuteAfter 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.












22nd May 1999
27 years ago
2 hours 1 minute
Finishes at 6:44am
$6,000,000 ($11,907,000 today)
Revenue $437,568

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