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Tokyo-Ga. Tokyo-Ga is a 1985 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders, about Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. An international co-production of the United States and West Germany, the film was shot in spring 1983. Its focus ranges from explicit explorations of Ozu's filmmaking—Wenders interviews Ozu's regular cinematographer, Yuharu Atsuta ...
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- Laurent Petitgand
- Wim Wenders
- Chris Sievernich [de]
Apr 26, 1985 · Tokyo-Ga: Directed by Wim Wenders. With Chishû Ryû, Werner Herzog, Yûharu Atsuta, Chris Marker. Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu's films.
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Tokyo-Ga. German director Wim Wenders made this documentary in which he tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. When Wenders visits Tokyo for the first time, he ...
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Jan 21, 2024 · Tokyo-ga is a part of a series of diary-like films that Wim Wenders has created in recent years, offering his impressions of the Japanese capital and director Yasujiro Ozu. While visiting places and people in Tokyo, Wenders speaks about Ozu: “His films always tell, with means reduced to the bare essentials, about the same people in the same ...
Jun 23, 2022 · In Tokyo-Ga, Wim Wenders films his visit to Yasujiro Ozu’s grave in the cemetery in the city of Kamakura, not far from Tokyo. His tomb bears no name, nor an epitaph, only the character mu that can be translated as ‘ inconstant’ or ‘impermanence’. Tokyo-Ga (1985), a documentary by Wim Wenders distributed by Axiom Films.
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Tokyo-ga. Directed by Wim Wenders • 1985 • United States, Germany. On the streets of Tokyo and in meetings with some of Yasujiro Ozu's legendary collaborators, renowned director Wim Wenders explores the world of Ozu, whom Wenders considers 'a sacred treasure of cinema.'. Show more. Sign Up. 1:33:23. Tokyo-ga.
Tokyo-Ga. Directed by Wim Wenders. US/West Germany , 1985, DCP, color, 92 min. English, Japanese and German with English subtitles. DCP source: Janus Films. Just before he found international acclaim with his crowning work Paris, Texas, German filmmaker Wim Wenders took a detour to Tokyo to pay tribute to the director whom he counted among his ...
