Tokyo Ga
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tokyo Ga |
| Original title | Tokyo Ga |
| Country of production | Germany , USA |
| original language | English , Japanese , German |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wim Wenders |
| script | Wim Wenders |
| production |
Chris Sievernich , Wim Wenders |
| music | Laurent Petitgand |
| camera | Edward Lachman |
| cut |
Solveig Dommartin , Jon Neuburger , Wim Wenders |
| occupation | |
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Tokyo-Ga is in West Germany and the United States produced documentary by Wim Wenders from the year 1985 , the director Yasujirō Ozu addressed and the Japan of the 1980s in connection to Ozu's work.
action
Wim Wenders' visit to Japan in the spring of 1983 is shown , where he follows in the footsteps of the filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu, whom he admires . Wenders describes Tokyo-Ga as a kind of “cinematic diary” of his own “ trip to Tokyo ” . He interviews Ozu's longtime cameraman Yuharu Atsuta (1905-1993) and Ozu's regular actor Chishū Ryū (1904-1993), who report on their collaboration with him.
In addition to Ozu's films, Wenders also shows the modern and fast Tokyo of the 1980s in Toyko-Ga , which seems to be fundamentally different from Ozu's films with its pachinkos , shokuhin-sanpurus and countless neon signs and screens. In Ozu's films from the 1920s until his death, the increasing change in Japanese society is continuously described due to the increasing influence of the West and the technologization of society. At the same time, Ozu's films mourn the disintegration of traditional and especially Japanese values, especially within the family structure. In modern Tokyo, more than 20 years after Ozu's death, there doesn't seem to be much of the traditions left.
background
The film premiered on April 24, 1985 in West Germany. At the 1985 Cannes Film Festival , Tokyo-Ga was shown in the Un Certain Regard category .
Reviews
The film service writes that Tokyo-Ga is “an impressive film document about alienation and filmmaking, informative and interesting. The comment, which is sometimes a bit too unctuous, is the only problem. "
Eleanor Mannikka from the All Movie Guide gave four and a half stars out of five and called the film a "fascinating documentary". The fragments of city life shown by Wenders are "meaningful, eloquent statements of Japanese ethics" and sometimes "surreal". In contrast to the conversations with Ozu's companions, the result is a “well-rounded view of Tokyo”.
Web links
- Tokyo-Ga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tokyo-Ga (1985) - IMDb Release Dates. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
- ↑ TOKYO GA. Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
- ^ Tokyo-Ga (film service). Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
- ^ Tokyo-Ga (1985) - Wim Wenders | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related. Retrieved February 21, 2019 (American English).