PERFECT DAYS (CERT. PG)
JAPAN-GERMANY 2023 DIRECTED BY WIM WENDERS
COLOUR 2h 4m
WITH: KŌJI YAKUSHO, TOKIO EMOTO, ARISA NAKANO
With documentary-like precision, we follow a Tokyo toilet attendant as he undertakes his own precise, repetitive daily routine with evident joy and application. But the equilibrium of this ordered life is disturbed when a figure from the past appears.
2 awards, Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or, Best Actor
‘The film’s humane, hopeful embrace of everyday blessings is enough to make it Wenders’s freshest, most rewarding fiction feature in close on 30 years.’ – Variety
‘As much a manifesto as a movie, advocating not just a new way of looking, but a new way of living.’ – The Guardian
‘A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.’
– Cannes Film Festival
‘Wenders has a knack for planting himself wherever in the world he desires and making something substantial with the culture, history and customs of where he has landed up.’ –
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