Tokyo Story

In the early seventies, when I made my first films, I was mainly influenced by American movies and Yasujiro Ozu.

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We actually spent a lot of time watching movies like Tokyo Story by Ozu, just because we wanted to create a sense of loss and melancholy for Cap.

I love those films that just allow you to be with someone. And Ozu is the master of that, for me, as a filmmaker.

Sofia Coppola has said she wanted Lost in Translation to feel like a Wong Kar-wai film set in Tokyo, the same grammar of longing, the same two people in a city who almost connect and then don't. In the Mood for Love is the direct model: desire as proximity, missed by centimeters. Ozu's Tokyo Story is the other ancestor, the city as a place where people pass each other in corridors without ever really meeting.