[KineJapan] Beka & Lemoine's Moriyama-san / Wender's Perfect Days?

[Roger Macy]

Thanks for this, Quentin.

Moriyama-san is an interesting watch and Moriyama-san himself hasa beautiful home and lifestyle.

The visual similarities are striking and I can’t see how Wenders, cinematographerLustig or indeed Yakusho could have created the likenesses without carefullylooking at this film, even though Wenders’ Hirayama lives in a far moreproletarian locality and residence. (In contrast, Moriyama clearly hasinherited wealth and apparently no need to work at all.)

Perfect Days did get a cinema screening here at Nippon Connectionbut no screener link is available. However, it turns out that Perfect Daysis on VoD here through Amazon.de, even though not yet in the UK.There is a brief page in the end credits for ‘special thanks’ but it does notinclude Moriyama-san, Bêka,or Lemoine. I saw no acknowledgement.

Roger

 


    On Sunday, 2 June 2024 at 04:42:31 CEST, quentin turnour via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:  
 
 Anyone know if the Japanese press have picked up on the minor rumble going on in the modern architecture press about shot-for-shot similarities between architectural documentary specialists Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine's 2016 short documentary MORIYAMA-SAN, and Wender's PERFECT DAYS?
The irony here is that neither party is Japanese. And some of the commentary is a little obtuse: is it Wender's homage or theft? And maybe words are being selected carefully. But that Beka and Lemoine may have an opinion might be suggested by an invite I just got for 48 hour free access to MORIYAMA-SAN via the ArchDaily website: Almost Perfect Days: Hirayama and Moriyama, a Double Vision of Architecture. Some of you might also have seen this. 

Quentin TurnourNational Archives of Australia.



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