11 Dec 2023

Koji Yakusho’s Closet Picks

The legendary actor shares his love for the Akira Kurosawa classics Red Beard and Ikiru, recalls how Tatsuya Nakadai was his teacher when he first began acting, admires the visual storytelling of City Lights, and shouts out his latest collaborator, Wim Wenders.

Koji Yakusho: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

7

every one a single film

single films

7

chosen on their own

box sets

0

none this visit

films reached

7

no set to open

Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com

This visit as a strip, a cell for each choice: paler the older the film, indigo for a box set, which is one cell however many films it holds. The order is the order Criterion's own page lists them in, which is probably but not provably the order they came off the shelf.

159 Red Beard 1965 221 Ikiru 1952 302 Harakiri 1962 1125 The Funeral 1984 1155 Cure 1997 680 City Lights 1931 501 Paris, Texas 1984

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Red Beard	Akira Kurosawa	1965	2
2	Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa	1952	6
3	Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi	1962	3
4	The Funeral	Juzo Itami	1984	2
5	Cure	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	1997	6
6	City Lights	Charles Chaplin	1931	10
7	Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders	1984	9

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1931 to 1997

a single film, at its year the collection, by decade

The axis is the same 1920 to 2030 on every visit page, so a haul that stayed inside one decade looks like one. A box set is drawn across the years of the films inside it, which is a range of release dates and not a claim about the set. Nothing here is in the order the choices were made: displayed position moves film year by a fifth of one percent of its variance, which is not a slope worth drawing.

How long this haul is

Its 7films run 15.5 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 133 minutes of film for each of its 7 choices, counting a box set as the one choice it was. Across the 375 visits with a complete total, the median is 136.4 minutes.

How unusual this haul was

Its 7 choices had been taken by 5.43 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Every one of them has been taken by somebody else too. The least-picked was Red Beard, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Wim Wenders, through Paris, Texas, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com