Perfect days
by
In collaboration with Wenders Images
MOVIE CATEGORY
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.
As David Rooney writes: « Almost four decades after retracing the footsteps of Ozu in the documentary Tokyo-Ga, Wenders returns to the Japanese capital to make his best narrative feature in years. Enriched with a vivid sense of place, the film takes its cue from the Japanese word komorebi, which describes the shimmering play of light and shadows through the leaves of a tree, every flickering movement unique».
Premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Perfect Days won the Award for Best Actor (Kōji Yakusho) as well as the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
DIRECTORY
Born in 1945, he came to international prominence as one of the pioneers of the New German Cinema in the 1970’s and is considered to be one of the most important figures in contemporary German film. In addition to his many prize-winning feature films, his work as a scriptwriter, director, producer, photographer and author also encompasses an abundance of documentary films, international photo exhibitions and numerous monographs, film books and prose collections. He lives and works in Berlin, together with his wife Donata Wenders. He studied medicine and philosophy before moving to Paris in 1966 to study painting. His career as a filmmaker began in 1967 when Wenders enrolled at the newly founded University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich). Parallel to his studies at the HFF, he also worked as a film critic from 1967 to 1970. Wenders has been a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin since 1984, and holds honorary doctorates from the Sorbonne in Paris (1989), the Faculty of Theology at the University of Fribourg (1995), the University of Louvain (2005) and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Catania (2010). Since 1996 he has been President of the European Film Academy.
He teaches as a professor at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg.
