Tokyo-Ga (1985)
Directed by Wim Wenders
German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.
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The picture itself is composed all of subtle gesture and obscure movements, one of the world's great metropolises haunted by ghosts, motion, and hallucinations, placing Lost in Translation in the company of work like Wim Wenders' Tokyo-Ga and Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express.
Wenders clearly has an affinity with Japanese cinema, having made the documentary film Tokyo-Ga, on the legendary auteur Yasujirō Ozu, the feel and warmth of his films is certainly present here.
Perfect Days marks Wenders' first Japanese narrative feature, and as we've seen in 1985's Tokyo-Ga, Wenders has a deep love for the culture and the films that have come from this area—particularly the work of Yasujiro Ozu.
Almost four decades after retracing the footsteps of Ozu in the documentary Tokyo-Ga, Wenders returns to the Japanese capital to make his best narrative feature in years. Enriched with a vivid sense of place, the film takes its cue from the Japanese word komorebi, which describes the shimmering play of light and shadows through the leaves of a tree, every flickering movement unique.
At first glance, it is hard not to see this as Wenders honoring Japanese giant Yasujirō Ozu again; Wenders already made the tender and warmhearted “Tokyo-Ga” in 1985 about the master filmmaker.