Several great Japanese movies have come out in the past year, adding to a recent golden period, so is Japan making the best of the best right now? Cinema around the world is all about cycles. You’ll see peaks and troughs where a nation is producing stellar work followed by a period of creative lull […]
2023 BFI London Film Festival Review – Perfect Days
Perfect Days, 2023. Directed by Wim Wenders. Starring Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Sayuri Ishikawa, and Arisa Nakano. SYNOPSIS: A janitor in Japan drives between jobs listening to rock music. Wim Wenders is a titan of European cinema with acclaimed German language films like Kings of the Road, Wings of Desire and Wrong Move, he is […]
