2023-10-23 17:56:08
Wim Wenders’ fascination with Japanese culture is well known. This year he is the focus of the Tokyo Film Festival.
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The Tokyo Film Festival began with a screening of Wim Wenders’ drama “Perfect Days”. Wenders (78) is president of the international jury this year. The film is set in Tokyo and tells the story of a man named Hirayama (Koji Yakusho). At the opening on Monday, Wenders and the 67-year-old leading actor were accompanied by the mostly Japanese film team.
Wenders has often emphasized his fascination for Japanese culture in the past. In the 1980s he released a documentary about the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu.
His current film “Perfect Days” tells the story of Hirayama, who works as a toilet cleaner, seems content with his simple life and lives very much in the moment. The film is in the running for the foreign Oscar for Japan. It will be known on December 21st whether he will make it onto the shortlist from which the candidates will be chosen in January. “Perfect Days” will also be released in German cinemas on December 21st.
The Tokyo Film Festival runs until November 1st. This year’s competition features films by two German-speaking filmmakers: “Gondola” by Veit Helmer and “Blind at Heart” by Barbara Albert. (dpa)
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