Tokyo-Ga (1985) Criterion Collection [Reuploaded]

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An IMDb Review: Japan with an identity crises!:
This was one of the most interesting films I've seen in a long time, documenting the ever-changing lifestyles of Japan captured from back in the early/mid 1980's.

Wim Wenders's tribute to the late great director Ozu clearly demonstrates how Japan was starting to slowly lose touch with it's own humanity and family tradition values and delve in a more surreal world where it could no longer identify itself as being placed within it's own culture or that of another? What it really touches upon is how he tries to source the genuine culture of family ties that Ozu maintained in his masterpieces which sadly are ignored or not in affect in a post-modern era.

For example as the film progresses on, you hear how Wim describes the way the Japanese seem to be only basking in the light of the technological age and how they only seem to be Americanisng itself with the construction of it's own version of Disneyland and dressing up in 50's/60's garb of American culture. Thus giving you the image of a country losing it's own identity along the way.

Nonetheless, Wim Wenders has done a masterful job at trying to find a Japan that resides only in one's imagination thanks to Ozu's films. But still provides a very educational and poetic journey into heart and soul into the land of the RISING SUN.

Brilliant!

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