Nick is a writer who works and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has previously written for Indiewire, The Playlist, and Little White Lies. Few directors are as gifted at embodying the tactile ...

Leading filmmakers from China, Germany, Japan and the U.S. spoke of their admiration for Yasujiro Ozu as part of the celebrations at Tokyo International Film Festival for the 120th anniversary of the ...

The project will star Japanese leading man Koji Yakusho and will be set in a public restroom that's part of a real-life urban renewal project. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief German director Wim ...

The gentle, Tokyo-set drama stars Koji Yakusho — in a Cannes best actor-winning performance — as a simple, dignified man who works as a cleaner of toilets. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief The ...

Tokyo-Ga is Wim Wenders' personal, diary-like film following his journey to Tokyo to discover more about director Yasujiro Ozu and the Japan seen in his work. Calling Ozu a "holy treasure of cinema" ...

German filmmaker Wim Wenders is to be the president of the jury that decides the main competition prizes later this year at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Wenders has frequent connections with ...

Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the movie ...

The hero of German filmmaker Wim Wenders’ new film, Perfect Days, spends his time cleaning toilets. Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho) has opted for a simple and solitary life as a toilet cleaner in a park in ...

"Toilets are the opposite of culture" in Europe, Wim Wenders told French news agency AFP in an online video interview. But in Japan, where the film is set, "that is not the case". The movie's taciturn ...

If you’re ever caught short in Shibuya, fear not. A most pleasant public toilet experience awaits. The Tokyo Toilet was a scheme made in conjunction with the Shibuya City government, in which ...

German director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris Texas) has signed on to direct a film about public toilets in Tokyo, Japan. Yes, toilets. The fictional film, which is set to star Japanese leading ...