60 years ago Yasuhiro Ozu He died at the precise age of 60 years. The Japanese director of unappealable works such as ‘Tales from Tokyo‘ He was born on December 12, 1903 and died exactly the same day in 1963 (almost a month late).
Wim Wenders (Düsseldorf, 1945) knows it to the point of obsession. He remembers that 40 years ago, when 20 years had passed since his death, he traveled to Tokyo with the sole idea of tracking down the footprints of his admired colleague. From that adventure (as he describes it) the film emerged ‘Tokio-Ga’. Now, he returns and does so as one who returns to himself, to his first time, to the purest part of his inspiration and reason for being.
Perfect daysnominated for the Oscars by Japan (not Germany), is basically that: a return to the very origin of Wenders, a work of maturity from the earliest creative childhood. It is that and a resplendent film about everyday perfection.