After his wife dies, 55-year-old 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. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure. After about a year, the women begin to assert their own power. Side adventures pre-figure the household's breakup, and the women depart in one way or another, one at at time. Philip's fate is in the hands of Palmira, his favorite.

Starring:

Amanda Plummer, Ann Overstall Comfort, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Barbara Sarafian, Claire Johnston, Dean Harrington, Derek Kueter, Don Warrington, Elizabeth Berrington, Hairi Katagiri, John Standing, Julian Nest, Katsuya Kobayashi, Kirina Mano, Matthew Delamere, Myriam Muller, Natacha Amal, Patrick Hastert, Peter Greenaway, Polly Walker, Radica Jovicic, Sachi

Genre:

Comedy, Drama