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Feb 5, 2024 · The protagonist, Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), is a cleaner for the Tokyo Toilet, a real-life set of seventeen public bathrooms of architectural distinction that opened between 2020 and 2023 in the...
Feb 6, 2024 · Praised for its moving depiction of finding beauty and bliss in the ordinary, Perfect Days won the festival’s Best Actor gong for its Japanese star Koji Yakusho and was nominated for the...
The Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho is prolific, from his roles in Japanese films to parts in American movies like “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Babel”. This year, ...
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Feb 7, 2024 · Wenders' new film stars Koji Yakusho as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo who finds beauty and meaning in the small details of everyday life.
Box office. $25.7 million [2][3] 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 washroom cleaner in Tokyo. [5]
Feb 7, 2024 · While Yakusho delivers a tour de force performance throughout the film, what he and Wenders do in the final scene of Perfect Days is unforgettable. It's an unbroken shot of Hirayama driving to ...
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Feb 22, 2024 · Koji Yakusho as Hirayama in Perfect Days (2023) Hirayama’s day continues with him cleaning, always removing himself when interrupted by people caught short. He has a sandwich lunch in the same garden, where he uses an analogue camera to photograph the canopy of trees, and nods at a young woman who treats him with suspicion.
