Perfect Days

Wim Wenders
2023

Our Little Sister
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Le notti di Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957).

Setsuko Hara painting a portrait of Toshirô Mifune in Yasuki Chiba's 'Tokyo Sweetheart' (1952)

Hideko Takamine (高峰秀子) May 1954 calendar
scanned from Eiga Joho magazine

Gene Tierney in The Shanghai Gesture, 1941

『稲妻』1952
高峰秀子さん

Shimizu’s set fit.

Boris Karloff in his Frankenstein costume playing baseball, with Buster Keaton as the catcher.

Remembering the great Japanese actress, Kyōko Kishida (岸田今日子) on her birth anniversary!

Manji (1964)
Director: Yasuzō Masumura

In partnership with @JapanSociety we're giving away some free tickets to the North American premiere of Takashi Miike's Lumberjack The Monster, which features Kamenashi Kazuya, on May 6th in NYC!

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Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953).

“I can’t shoot films like Shimizu.”—Yasujiro Ozu

Hiroshi Shimizu and his crew on the set of lost 1935 feature 『恋愛豪華版』. 📸 courtesy of the NFAJ.

Our 27-film retro “Hiroshi Shimizu” opens at Museum of the Moving Image this weekend thru 5/19, continuing at Japan Society Film from 5/16-6/1!

Tippi Hedren on the set of The Birds, 1963

Yoshiko Yamaguchi (山口淑子) & Fujiko Yamamoto (山本富士子)
scanned from Eiga Joho April 1954 issue

Anouk Aimée in Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)

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''The Face of Another' (1966) is about the breakdown of communication between people, not only in Japan, but universally. I sought to convey the magnitude of human isolation & loneliness.'

--- Hiroshi Teshigahara