Synopsis
An ode to simple pleasures and one man’s solitary state of grace, “Perfect Days” is German filmmaker Wim Wenders’ celebrated new feature. Made in Tokyo with an all-Japanese cast, it stars Kōji Yakusho as Hirayama, a gentle man in his middle age who cleans toilets for a living, but lives for what he loves: the rock’n’roll of Patti Smith and Van Morrison, the literature of William Faulkner, the ephemeral play of light through tree leaves. Yakusho, winner of the best actor award at Cannes this year, gives a magnetic performance in a film of everyday enchantments. Wrote Variety’s Guy Lodge, “‘Perfect Days’ finds its maker in bracing, uncomplicated form … the film’s humane, hopeful embrace of everyday blessings is enough to make it Wenders’ freshest, most rewarding and arthouse-friendly fiction feature in close on 30 years.”