Perfect Days

A poetic and touching meditation on the beauty of the everyday and the unpredictability of human life. Grandly directed by Wim Wenders, the long-standing master of German cinema.

Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo. The taciturn elderly gentleman goes about his work with devoted precision and dignity. Living alone in a small apartment, his daily life is regimented like clockwork. During the week, he gets up early, listens to cassettes of English rock music on his drive to work, and reads sophisticated literature in second-hand paperbacks every evening. During his work breaks, he takes photographs. He seems perfectly content with his simple, solitary life. Then, several unexpected encounters bring to light a past that Hirayama seemed to have left behind. - Wim Wenders’ new film is a meditation, as poetic as it is profoundly moving, on the beauty of everyday things and the infinitely winding paths of human life.

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