The Wanderers poster
The Films That Shaped It

The Wanderers

1973 · Kon Ichikawa

Yeah, because it’s a mosaic. It has a dreamlike quality and I think Fellini was an influence on us, you know, La Dolce Vita and his other films. He was a master of that, and I was going for something that had a certain amount of reality, but also a certain sense of unreality as well. I mean, it’s a little like a dream, The Wanderers, because there’s so many different characters, so many different things happening, and then some of the scenes are, you know, very realistic, but others are kind of