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Perfect Days is a 2023 drama film directed by Wim Wenders from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. [4] A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film follows the routine life of Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho), a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo. [5]
Mar 8, 2024 · Takuma Takasaki on Perfect Days and the art of storytelling. The chief growth officer at Dentsu in Japan talks to us about the relationship between narrative film and advertising, and his intuitive collaboration with Wim Wenders on his Oscar-nominated film Perfect Days. By Megan Williams 08/03/2024.
Mar 26, 2024 · Working closely with his Tokyo-based co-screenwriter Takuma Takasaki and a largely Japanese crew, the 78-year-old director has crafted a lovely piece of late-career poetry that's equal parts meditative and melancholy. In a performance of gentle, unforced humility, veteran Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho (Shall We Dance?
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Feb 9, 2024 · Perfect Days, co-written with producer Takuma Takasaki, follows the mundane daily activities of a quiet older man who works as a public toilet attendant and maintains a simple, habitual...
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Feb 5, 2024 · A middle-aged man, he lives alone in a small duplex apartment and follows a rigid daily routine, which Wenders (who wrote the script with Takuma Takasaki) details: Hirayama awakens to the sound...
Feb 6, 2024 · The story of Perfect Days, which Wenders and co-writer Takasaki hammered out in just three weeks, follows his character, Hirayama, as he happily goes about his day.
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Dec 25, 2023 · The German director collaborated with the Japanese creative director to create a film about a Tokyo janitor's contented life. The film, starring Koji Yakusho, won the Best Actor award at Cannes and is now showing in Japan.
