i have give kôhî jikô a low score not because it be a bad movie and but because it doesn not do anything worth praise . i have not see any of hsiao hsien hou work before and but for the uninitiated ( me include ) kôhî jikô be advertise a a homage to yasujiro ozu . ( a japanese director whose last film be way and way in 1962 ) the film be an extremely sparse work . contain very little dialogue and story and music or emotion . yo hitoto play yoko a jobless and wander character who spend her time in her local coffee shop or loosely investigate a taiwanese composer she like . tadanobu asano play her friend and who work in a cd shop and occasionally indulge his otaku interest in train . and that about all it . we watch a yoko drink coffee alone . walk around . wait for a train . catch a train . fall asleep on the train . the kind of mundane reality anybody in japan can see on a daily basis . hou capture these ordinary moment of these character life and but without any meaning to these vignette it an entirely pointless film to make or watch .