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In this tribute to director Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Tokyo to find the city of the Japanese master.
Excerpt of Wenders’s narrating voice: “If there were still sanctuaries in our century… if there was something like a holy treasure of cinema, for me, that would be the work of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. He made 54 films. Silent movies in the 1920s, black and white films in the 1930s and 1940s and finally color films until his death on the 12th December 1963, on his 60th birthday.”
In this tribute to director Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Tokyo to find the city of the Japanese master.
Excerpt of Wenders’s narrating voice: “If there were still sanctuaries in our century… if there was something like a holy treasure of cinema, for me, that would be the work of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. He made 54 films. Silent movies in the 1920s, black and white films in the 1930s and 1940s and finally color films until his death on the 12th December 1963, on his 60th birthday.”
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Cast:
Chishû Ryû, Werner Herzog, Yuuharu Atsuta, Chris Marker -
Original Title:
Tokyo-ga -
Country:
Germany -
Year:
1985 - 92 min
Director
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders is one of the main auteurs of the New German Cinema of the 1970s, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog. With his film The American Friend (1977), Wenders gained both international recognition and a nomination for the Palme d’Or, which he finally won with Paris, Texas (1984).
His 1987 film Wings of Desire brought him the Best Director Award at Cannes and became his biggest success. In 1993, he received the Grand Jury Prize at the same festival with the film Faraway, so Close!. Since 1990, Wenders has described himself as a nonfiction filmmaker, directing several publicly acclaimed documentaries, Buena Vista Social Club (1999) and Pina (2011), both nominated for Oscars.
The 2015 edition of LEFFEST paid tribute to the director with both a full retrospective of his work and the photographic exhibition "In the Daylight even Sounds Shine - Wim Wenders Discovering Portugal". One of his most recent works, The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez, was nominated for the Golden Lion in Venice (2016) and his latest documentary work, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, premiered in Cannes in 2018.
His 1987 film Wings of Desire brought him the Best Director Award at Cannes and became his biggest success. In 1993, he received the Grand Jury Prize at the same festival with the film Faraway, so Close!. Since 1990, Wenders has described himself as a nonfiction filmmaker, directing several publicly acclaimed documentaries, Buena Vista Social Club (1999) and Pina (2011), both nominated for Oscars.
The 2015 edition of LEFFEST paid tribute to the director with both a full retrospective of his work and the photographic exhibition "In the Daylight even Sounds Shine - Wim Wenders Discovering Portugal". One of his most recent works, The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez, was nominated for the Golden Lion in Venice (2016) and his latest documentary work, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, premiered in Cannes in 2018.
