Perfect Days (PG)

★★★★ Veteran German director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) heads to Japan with this serene and unassuming drama. Strengthened by a sympathetic and understated performance from Yakusho, Perfect Days is an ode to solitude and everyday pleasures that rewards viewers' patience with its stripped-back story and gentle pacing. ~ Radio Times.

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Winner of the Best Actor award at Cannes, and nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Academy Awards.

A highly anticipated return to fiction feature filmmaking from Wim Wenders, Perfect Days takes the Paris, Texas writer-director to Tokyo to tell a story celebrating the hidden joys and minutiae of Japanese culture. A tender, shimmering marvel that celebrates the beauty of the everyday.

Languages:
Japanese

Subtitles:
Full English

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★★★★★ Wim Wenders’s elegant, touching film may be his best drama since Wings of Desire. Selected as the Japanese entry for the international feature Oscar, this is a film to live your life by. ~ The Irish Times.

★★★★ A wonderful late career flourish for Wim Wenders. ~ The Scotsman.

★★★★ Originally intended as a documentary about Tokyo’s exquisitely designed public toilets, Wim Wenders’ wise and delightful feature tells the story of a man who cleans them. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ A poetic, beautifully balanced character study. Wim Wenders' gentle character studies features a beautifully restrained performance from Kôji Yakusho, as a toilet cleaner who lives a simple life in Tokyo; profound simplicity by two cinematic masters. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ Wim Wenders’s quiet character portrait is utterly absorbing. ~ Sunday Irish Independent.

★★★★ A gentle ode to a Tokyo toilet cleaner. This understated drama is really rather lovely. ~ The Times.

★★★★ It’s not a perfect movie but it comes pretty close. ~ Financial Times.