Perfect Days

2024 Academy Award nominee for Best International Feature Film!

All screenings will include a special pre-recorded introduction from Director Wim Wenders & Star Koji Yakusho!

Acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire; Paris, Texas) returns with a poignant character study and a deeply moving, poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. In Perfect Days, Koji Yakusho (winner of the Best Actor award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival) stars as the good-natured Hirayama, who goes about his solitary hours working as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo, while his favorite rock music from Lou Reed, Patti Smith or The Rolling Stones hums from his trusty tape player. Interacting on his rounds with a variety of city denizens whose eccentricities put his gentle nature into even more delightful relief, the middle-aged Hirayama becomes the quiet hero of his own story, doing his menial work without complaint, bemused yet often enchanted at the younger folk orbiting him, and delighted by the natural wonders poking out from the corners of the always changing cityscape. Hirayama is a creature very much of the present, devoted to a daily routine that is nearly monastic—until it is disrupted by someone from his past. (Dir. by Wim Wenders, 2023, Japan/Germany, in Japanese/English with English subtitles, 125 mins., Rated PG)