Perfect Days (2023)

Original title

PERFECT DAYS

Directed by

Wim Wenders

Genre

drama film, slice of life

Country

Germany, Japan

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 1,961 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man named Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo and follows a simple daily routine. The film watches his quiet interactions with people and the small pleasures he finds in his life.

calmobservantmeditativegentlecontemplativehopefulgroundedunderstated

What happens

Perfect Days is a 2023 drama film directed by Wim Wenders from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film follows the routine life of Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho), a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Perfect Days premiered on 23 May 2023 at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Award for Kōji Yakusho. It was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, becoming the first film directed by a non-Japanese filmmaker to be nominated as the Japanese entry. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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