Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.
Cinematography
Wenders' wandering Tokyo frames that feel like memory, not location.
Direction
Conversations that breathe—awkward silences included intentionally.
Director
Wim Wenders
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wenders made this during his '80s fascination with Japan, between Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire—his most curious, least plot-driven decade.
Yamamoto's monologues about his mother's dressmaking shop were largely unscripted; Wenders kept cameras rolling through meals, arguments, and silences.
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