RECOMMENDED: Wim Wenders - The Perfect Days (2023) 🌿🎞️🇯🇵

A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film follows the routine life of Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho), a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo. 
 

international title:    Perfect Days
original title:    Perfect Days
country:    Japan, Germany
sales agent:    The Match Factory
year:    2023
genre:    fiction
directed by:    Wim Wenders
film run:    123'
release date:    FR 29/11/2023
screenplay:    Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki
cast:    Koji Yakusho, Min Tanaka, Arisa Nakano, Tokio Emoto, Tomokazu Miura, Yumi Asô, Aoi Yamada, Sayuri Ishikawa

 

Story:
Hirayama feels content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, reads books and takes photos. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
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Plot. Hirayama works as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo's upscale Shibuya ward, across town from his modest home in an ungentrified neighborhood east of the Sumida River. He repeats his structured, ritualized lifestyle every day, starting at dawn. (Wikpédia)

„Yakusho never demands the space of any shot, but his internal conflicts command the screen in every sequence he is a part of (which, essentially, is all of them). He aims to get by no matter what, but Perfect Days proceeds to keep testing him; not just his patience, but his empathy, self-reflection, and even his wellbeing. The ending of the film discusses the concept of komorebi: the Japanese word for the sunbeams that filter through the leaves of trees and create a calming effect of peace and visual splendour for split seconds.” - Full article: www.filmsfatale.com

Perfect Days review: a little too neat: article on www.theverge.com (Oct 11, 2023)

 

 

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