Longtime writer-director Wim Wenders and co-writer Takuma Takasaki have teamed up for this Oscar nominated film depicting one man's attempt to control his life.Veteran actor Koji Yakusho stars as Hirayama. He's the proverbial creature of habit, which the first 45 minutes of the movie prove. ...
Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days suggests a kind of spring cleaning for the German filmmaker. The elaborate concepts and charged iconographies of The American Friend, Paris, Texas, and Wings of Desire are nowhere to be seen here. Wenders aims for simplicity with Perfect Days, following a middle-age...
Hirayama can go days saying no more than a few cursory words. If members of the public notice him, they largely view him as an inconvenience. But mostly they don’t even see him. It should be the most soul-crushingly bleak film ever made – a Groundhog Day grind with added despair ...
Films like Perfect Days are rare to come by. Rather than opting for a clear-cut narrative with dramatic twists and turns, this is a quiet, reserved and contemplative work that invites audiences to observe, reflect and embark on a poignant journey followi
Wim Wenders finds poetry in the quotidian in 'Perfect Days,' with Koji Yakusho as a middle-aged Tokyo man whose routine life yields gentle rewards.
Oct 11, 2023 Permalink Boring even for me as a Japanese person I'm Japanese, and I enjoyed bits of this movies as I felt somewhat nostalgic of depictions of every-day life in Japan (as I have not lived there for some years) but... the movie is almost completely devoid of any plot...
Perfect Days (2023) Perfect Daysis acclaimed director Wim Wenders’ Tokyo-set film for which Koji Yakusho won a well-deserved Best Actor award. I'm glad I spent it with you by Alexa Dalby Perfect Days 4.0 out of 5.0 stars CAUTION: Here be spoilers...
A review should never be about the reviewer but just the movie. I’m going to break that rule, but first the movie. InPerfect DaysbyWim Wenders(Anselm), we are drawn into the world ofHirayama(Koji YakushoBest Actor Cannes 2023-Shall We Dance,Babel), whose world has a simplicity and a...
2023年05月20日 08:05 ...展开 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 encount...