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.
John Standing
Matthew Delamere
Vivian Wu
Annie Shizuka Inoh
Toni Collette
Claire Johnston
Polly Walker
Amanda Plummer
Elizabeth Berrington
Don Warrington
Kirina Mano
Manna Fujiwara
Natacha Amal
Barbara Sarafian
Ryota Tsuchiya