IFI@Belltable present Perfect Days. Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho), a solitary, though not necessarily lonely man, is a cleaner of public toilets in Tokyo, an insalubrious profession that he nevertheless approaches with utmost seriousness.
Wim Wenders’s return to fiction filmmaking is a poignant character study that extols the virtues of simplicity and humility in its portrait of a man who appears to be genuinely contented with his lot, such as it is.
We are invited to follow Hirayama on his daily routine as he fastidiously polishes and scrubs the public conveniences under his jurisdiction, taking great pride in his work, while casting a baleful eye over the less attentive efforts of his young assistant, Takashi (Tokio Emoto).
Wim Wenders | 123 mins | Germany-Japan | 2023 | Digital | Subtitled
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