Production Companies

Delux Productions, Kasander & Wigman Productions, Continent Film GmbH, Movie Masters, Woodline Productions

Overview

"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.