Wim Wenders

Perfect Days

Perfect Days

A perfect song that hits at just the right moment, the play of sunlight through leaves, a fleeting moment of human connection in a vast metropolis: the wonders of everyday life come into breath­taking focus in this profoundly moving film by Wim Wenders. In a radiant, Cannes-award-winning performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness, Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through his small exchanges with those around him and with the city itself. Channeling his idol Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders crafts a serenely minimalist ode to the miracle that is the here and now.

Film Info

  • Japan, Germany
  • 2023
  • 124 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.33:1
  • Japanese
  • Spine #1226

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 4K digital master, approved by director Wim Wenders, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New interview with Wenders
  • Interview with actor Koji Yakusho
  • Interview with producer Koji Yanai, founder of the Tokyo Toilet project
  • some body comes into the light (2023), a short by Wenders, featuring a new introduction by the director
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri

    New cover by Michael Boland

Purchase Options

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 4K digital master, approved by director Wim Wenders, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New interview with Wenders
  • Interview with actor Koji Yakusho
  • Interview with producer Koji Yanai, founder of the Tokyo Toilet project
  • some body comes into the light (2023), a short by Wenders, featuring a new introduction by the director
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri

    New cover by Michael Boland
Perfect Days
Cast
Koji Yakusho
Hirayama
Tokio Emoto
Takashi
Arisa Nakano
Niko
Aoi Yamada
Aya
Yumi Aso
Keiko
Sayuri Ishikawa
Mama-san
Tomokazu Miura
Tomoyama
Min Tanaka
Homeless man
Credits
Director
Wim Wenders
Written by
Wim Wenders
Written by
Takuma Takasaki
Produced by
Koji Yanai
Executive producer
Koji Yakusho
Producer
Wim Wenders
Producer
Takuma Takasaki
Coproducer
Reiko Kunieda
Coproducer
Keiko Tominaga
Coproducer
Kota Yabana
Coproducer
Yasushi Okuwa
Line producer
Yusuke Kobayashi
Director of photography
Franz Lustig
Editor
Toni Froschhammer
Dream sound design and rerecording mixer
Matthias Lempert
Dream installations
Donata Wenders
Installations editor
Clémentine Decremps
Production designer
Towako Kuwajima
Costume designer
Daisuke Iga
Hair and makeup artist
Katsuhiko Yuhmi
Casting director
Masunobu Motokawa
Location manager
Ko Takahashi
Postproduction supervisor
Dominik Bollen
VFX supervisor
Kalle Max Hofmann

Current

Perfect Days: Where the Light Comes Through
Perfect Days: Where the Light Comes Through

In one of the most patient films he has ever made, Wim Wenders captures how everyday existence drifts into our dream lives.

By Bilge Ebiri