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Perfect Days
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Perfect Days is a drama and slice-of-life film directed, written and produced by Wim Wenders, released on 10 November 2023 and made in Japanese across Japan and Germany. Shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio, it stars Kōji Yakusho, who also served as producer, alongside Tokio Emoto, Yumi Asō and Sayuri Ishikawa. It was made by Master Mind and Wenders Images on a budget of 14,000,000, taking 24,094,016 in revenue, and runs 124 minutes.
Presented at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, it received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Cannes, and was nominated for the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Rated PG, it carries the tagline "In a world of fleeting moments, find the beauty that lasts."
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7.8Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
Cast
- Koji Yakusho as Hirayama
- Tokio Emoto as Takashi
- Arisa Nakano as Niko
- Aoi Yamada as Aya
- Yumi Aso as Keiko
- Sayuri Ishikawa as Mama
Themes
- tree
- routine
- slice of life
- janitor
- working class
- tokyo, japan
- character study
- uncle niece relationship
- audio cassette
- solitude
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
103,770 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
80/100
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 14 wins & 51 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Wim Wenders
- Written by
- Wim Wenders Takuma Takasaki
- Produced by
- Wim Wenders Takuma Takasaki Koji Yanai
- Starring
- Kōji Yakusho Tokio Emoto Arisa Nakano Aoi Yamada Yumi Asō Sayuri Ishikawa Tomokazu Miura Min Tanaka
- Cinematography
- Franz Lustig
- Edited by
- Toni Froschhammer
- Production companies
- Master Mind Spoon Wenders Images
- Distributed by
- DCM (Germany) Bitters End (Japan)
- Release dates
- 25 May 2023 ( 2023-05-25 ) ( Cannes ) 21 December 2023 ( 2023-12-21 ) (Germany) 22 December 2023 ( 2023-12-22 ) (Japan)
- Running time
- 124 minutes
- Countries
- Japan Germany
- Language
- Japanese
- Box office
- $26.9 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- slice of life
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Original language
- Japanese
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Screenwriter
- Wim Wenders
- Producer
- Wim Wenders
- Duration
- 123
- FilmAffinity ID
- 683705
- Official website
- www.perfectdays-movie.jp
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- title
- Perfect Days
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- Commons category
- Perfect Days
- presented in
- 2023 Cannes Film Festival
- review score
- 80/100
- publication date
- 2024-02-07
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Encyclopedic overview
Perfect Days is a 2023 drama film directed by Wim Wenders from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film follows the routine life of Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho), a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo.
Perfect Days premiered on 23 May 2023 at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Award for Kōji Yakusho. It was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, becoming the first film directed by a non-Japanese filmmaker to be nominated as the Japanese entry.
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