Perfect Days
Friday, Feb. 16, 2024
While a Best International Feature Film Oscar nomination for Perfect Days (Neon) is a high honor, director Wim Wenders cited another bit of recognition earlier on in the process which he found quite gratifying and unexpected. Wenders related that as a German director, he was surprised...
Monday, Feb. 5, 2024
Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days" is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the movie resides, really, is Yakusho's face.
In this gently sublime film, Hirayama steps outside...