From Wim Wenders, the director of Alice in the Cities, Paris Texas, Buena Vista Social Club and Pina, comes a beautiful new film...Perfect Days.
Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) seems utterly content with his simple life as a janitor in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.
This is a movie about art, exploring how in the midst of chaos, it’s not labour but the physical objects of beauty that we weave into our lives - paperback novels, cassette tapes of favourite albums, carefully tended bonsai plants, a perfectly framed photograph - that structure and give our days meaning. A deeply moving reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. A poem of extraordinary subtlety and beauty led by a remarkable performance by Yakusho. Not to be missed.
