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Wim Wenders says, "If in our century something sacred still existed… if there were something like a sacred treasure of the cinema, then for me that would have to be the work of the Japanese director, Yasujiro Ozu. He made fifty-four films. Silent films in the Twenties, black-and-white films in the Thirties and Forties, and finally colour films until his death on December 12th, 1963, on his sixtieth birthday. Ozu's work does not need my praise and such a sacred treasure of the cinema could only reside in the realm of the imagination. And so, my trip to Tokyo was in no way a pilgrimage. I was curious as to whether I still could track down something from this time, whether there was still anything left of this work. Images perhaps, or even people… Or whether so much would have changed in Tokyo in the twenty years since Ozu's death that nothing would be left to find.

Genres: Documentary

Starring: Yuharu Atsuta, Werner Herzog, Chishu Ryu

Released: April 26, 1985

Runtime: 92.0

Popularity Rating: 2.307

Chris Sievernich Filmproduktion, Grey City, Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Germany, United States of America

Himself Yuharu Atsuta
Himself Werner Herzog
Himself Chishu Ryu
Himself (uncredited) Chris Marker

Camera — Director of Photography: Edward Lachman
Directing — Director: Wim Wenders
Editing — Editor: Jon Neuburger
Editing — Editor: Solveig Dommartin
Production — Producer: Chris Sievernich
Sound — Original Music Composer: Laurent Petitgand
Sound — Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Hartmut Eichgrun