After a long run of off-the-boil fiction features, the German veteran hits the sweet spot with this simple, touching ode to working routine and everyday human connection. “Perfect Days” finds its ...

A German-Japanese co-production, Wim Wenders’ Academy Award-nominated “Perfect Days” boasts an absolutely beatific performance from its lead actor Koji Yakusho (“Shall We Dance?”), winner of the best ...

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Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” was the hero of the day, earning strong notices and the now-standard standing ovation. TheWrap’s Nicholas Barber called it “an endearing, admiring portrait of a decent man.

Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the movie ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The working title for the film was apparently Tokyo Toilet, the name of the company that employs the film’s gnomic central ...

Perfect Days (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Wim Wenders, written by Takuma Takasaki and Wim Wenders and starring Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Miyako Tanaka, Bunmei Harada, Min ...

The German director offers his ode to Ozu (and to Tokyo’s public toilets). Wim Wenders‘ latest, “Perfect Days” plays like the culmination of filmmaker’s long tryst with Japanese virtuoso Ozu Yasujirō, ...

The dignity of labor is explored with gentle humor and a very melancholy sense of joie de vivre in Wim Wenders’ second 2023 Cannes entry after his 3D documentary Anselm. Shot entirely in Japan, with ...