If every man thinks of sex once every nine minutes, what does he think of the other eight?
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.
- Release Date: May 22, 1999
- Runtime: 121 minutes
- Production countries: Germany, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Netherlands
- Original Title: 8 ½ Women
- Original Language: English