Perfect Days

Radiating with charm, this unique mix of fiction and ordinary life finds an unusual, poetic angle to guide us: the architectural marvels of some of Tokyo’s public toilets. 

Kôji Yakusho plays Hirayama, a cleaner of these toilets. Hirayama lives alone in a small house full of plants, his days going by according to quiet rhythms that never seem to change.  Hirayama speaks very little and has a great passion for music, books, and the trees he loves to photograph. He drives to work in his minivan, fully equipped with his cleaning gear. As if in search of a new cinema on the road, Wenders follows his protagonist and instead discovers new places of the heart. Wenders captures the poetry of the everyday with intimacy and stunning simplicity.

“A beautifully observed paean to caretaking — both physical and philosophical — the movie is led, with sublime joy, by the great Japanese actor Koji Yakusho.”  - Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

Directed by: Wim Wenders, Featuring: Kôji Yakusho, Min Tanaka, Tokio Emoto | Country: Japan | Japanese with English Subtitles | 124 Minutes