Perfect Days

Wim Wenders’ Gentle Japanese Character Study is His Best Narrative Film in Decades

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 39
  • Director: Wim Wenders
  • Japan 2023
  • 123 minutes
  • Japanese
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine, he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveals more of his past.

Winner of the Best Actor Award in Cannes this year, Perfect Days is a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. Master filmmaker Wim Wenders “has crafted a film of deceptive simplicity, observing the tiny details of a routine existence with such clarity, soulfulness and empathy that they build a cumulative emotional power almost without you noticing” (Hollywood Reporter).

Filmography: Pina (2011), Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Lisbon Story (1994), Until the End of the World (1991), Paris, Texas (1984), The American Friend (1977).

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  • Director Wim Wenders
  • Production Koji Yanai, Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki
  • Script Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki
  • Cinematography Maxx Franz Lustig
  • Editing Toni Froschhammer
  • Festivals Cannes (Best Actor Award, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury)
  • Actors Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada
  • Source Lev Cinema

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