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.

• Delux Productions
• Kasander & Wigman Productions
• John Standing
• Matthew Delamere
• Vivian Wu
• Annie Shizuka Inoh
• Toni Collette
• Claire Johnston
• Polly Walker
• Amanda Plummer