Tokyo-ga
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Date: January 01, 1985 to February 01, 1986
Dates Note: 1985
Country of Origin:
Federal Republic of Germany
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United States
Place of Origin: West Germany, United States
Languages:
English
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Japanese
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Curator Notes
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Cinema Mon Amour: Ken UenoDescription:
A fascination with the films of Yasujiro Ozu leads Wenders to Japan in this poetic documentary on the beauty—and peril—of understanding another culture through film. Adrift but never lost in Tokyo, Wenders meets youth as enraptured with American culture as he once was, tours a factory that makes plastic food displays, and ponders other curios of modern Japan. More importantly, he visits the great actor Chishu Ryu (the father figure in many Ozu films, including Late Spring), and interviews Ozu’s cinematographer, Yuhara Atsuta. Chris Marker and Werner Herzog also appear in this moving, essayistic work on cinema, Japan, and, above all, Ozu.
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Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the RoadDescription:
A fascination with the films of Yasujiro Ozu leads Wenders to Japan in this poetic documentary on the beauty—and peril—of understanding another culture through film. Adrift but never lost in Tokyo, Wenders meets youth as enraptured with American culture as he once was, tours a factory that makes plastic food displays, and ponders other curios of modern Japan. More importantly, he visits the great actor Chishu Ryu (the father figure in many Ozu films), and interviews Ozu’s cinematographer, Yuhara Atsuta. Chris Marker and Werner Herzog also appear in this moving, essayist work on cinema, Japan, and, above all, Ozu.
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