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2023 | Rated PG | 124 minutes | DCP | Japanese language with English Subtitles | Click Title for Details
Japan's entry for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards.
A perfect song that hits at just the right moment, the play of sunlight through leaves, a fleeting moment of human connection in a vast metropolis: the wonders of everyday life come into breathtaking focus in this profoundly moving film by Wim Wenders. In a radiant, Cannes-award-winning performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness, Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through his small exchanges with those around him and with the city itself. Channeling his idol Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders crafts a serenely minimalist ode to the miracle that is the here and now.
Followed by a discussion led by Loyola film professor and journalist Zbigniew Banas.
