''Tokyo-Ga'' is a 1985

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directed by

Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and photographer, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, Venice International Film ...

, about Japanese filmmaker

Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese filmmaker. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s. The most pr ...

. An international co-production of the United States and

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, 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, and one of Ozu's favorite actors, Chishū Ryū—to scenes of contemporary Tokyo, featuring

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machines and plastic food displays. Wenders introduces the film as a "diary on film." ''Tokyo-Ga'' was screened in the ''

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'' section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.

Sections

#Reflections on Ozu #

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#The center of the world # Chishū Ryū #''Mu'' #Amusements #Wax food #Searching for images #Trains #Yuharu Atsuta #A good-bye

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* * 1985 films Films directed by Wim Wenders Documentary films about film directors and producers West German films 1980s German-language films 1980s Japanese-language films 1985 documentary films 1985 independent films German documentary films German independent films American documentary films American independent films Films set in Tokyo Films shot in Tokyo Yasujirō Ozu Films scored by Laurent Petitgand Japan in non-Japanese culture 1980s English-language films 1980s American films 1980s German films Films with screenplays by Wim Wenders English-language documentary films English-language independent films {{bio-documentary-film-stub