Four Favorites with Wim Wenders and Koji Yakusho

Wim Wenders and Koji Yakusho give their four favorite Japanese films and Wenders speaks to the honor of representing Japan at the 2024 Oscars.

Perfect Days lands in US theaters this February.

Interview by Brian Formo
Edited by @CultPopture
Translation by Alicia Haddick
Shot by @neonrated

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Koji sitting there like 'no cure?'

[juliandanieljimenezkrause]

Speaking stricktly for me, this is the most beautiful movie i have seen in a decade. Saw it twice already. A reflextion about life and the small things and trascendent things. A poem of delicate fotography. Awesome acting. The little pralines for Japan lovers. I love it.

[damiaankortenhorst]

i dont remember loving a movie as much as.perfect days in like forever. genuinely changed my life

[NewtShack]

Finally someone mentions a Shuji Terayama film.

[arrietys]

koji yakusho one of the best actors out there

[ludovica]

Perfect days is a masterful, truly inspiring and moving film ❤ Wenders cinema changed my life once when I was a teenager, and now this movie also changed something in me, it gave me something quite inexplicable. I'll be forever grateful to this man ❤ And Koji Yakusho's performance was simply one of the best I've ever seen!!

[dlwseattle]

I just got out of the movie Perfect Days - I bawled my eyes out for 50% of the movie. Paris Texas is my favorite movie of all time. Wim Wenders is a gift to our world!

[electrikalstorm]

Great duo, hope they work together again

[sikarasmahasawin]

Wim's 4 is basically four general cinematic introduction of Japan.

[HitoKunioka]

Perfect Days is such a lovely film! So cool Letterboxd got to do this video with these guys.

[teraliona]

love both of these guys so much, thank you for the lovely experience

[Captain_Teebs]

Two great artists and such a great, relaxing film. You can watch it over and over again!

[aliciaz]

I've been wanting to watch "Pastoral: To Die in the Country" for so long, and now I want to even more :)

[boudusaved]

Woman in the Dunes is one of the best films of all time. And Tarkovsky loved it!!!

[sudevsen]

Vim is veey gracious and humble and Koji is a superstar.

[magicknight]

Yeahhhh Ozu!!! Can't wait to watch Perfect Days!

[recetasfaciles]

Vivir y Barbarroja son dos obras maestras. Normalmente se usa a la ligera ese término, pero es que estás dos películas son el perfecto ejemplo de lo que una obra maestra debe ser. No solo son grandes historias, muy bien contadas ambas, sino que además son universales y sus mensajes han sobrevivido a lo largo del tiempo

[listener-kvrr]

Dzięki takim filmom jak Perfect Days mogę znów odwiedzić kino. Warto.

[nelespina]

Read Beard! Terrific, a masterpiece from the Master Akira Kurosawa. Great video. Love to see Perfect Days soon.

[originaozz]

Wowww I'm not surprise Wim Wenders enjoy Drive My Car. It shares the melancholy and beautifully human tone that his film has. While I was watching Perfect Days, it made me think he'll probably enjoy Manchester by the Sea too.