Perfect Days

Perfect Days
Perfect Days
	Japanese theatrical release poster
Directed by	Wim Wenders
Written by	Wim Wenders; Takuma Takasaki;
Produced by	Wim Wenders; Takuma Takasaki; Koji Yanai;
Starring	Kōji Yakusho; Tokio Emoto; Arisa Nakano; Aoi Yamada; Yumi Asō; Sayuri Ishikawa; Tomokazu Miura; Min Tanaka;
Cinematography	Franz Lustig
Edited by	Toni Froschhammer
Production; companies	Master Mind; Spoon; Wenders Images;
Distributed by	DCM (Germany); Bitters End (Japan);
Release dates	25 May 2023 (Cannes); 21 December 2023 (Germany); 22 December 2023 (Japan);
Running time	124 minutes
Countries	Japan; Germany;
Language	Japanese
Box office	$25.7 million

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]

Perfect Days premiered on 23 May 2023 at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Award for Kōji Yakusho. It was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, becoming the first film directed by a non-Japanese filmmaker to be nominated as the Japanese entry.^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Perfect Days". The Match Factory. Archived from the original on 9 June 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
^ "Perfect Days (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
^ "Perfect Days (2023)". The Numbers. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
^ Bradshaw, Peter (25 May 2023). "Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders explores a quiet life in Tokyo". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
^ Breitenbach, Dagmar (12 May 2022). "Tokyo's public toilets inspire Wim Wenders". DW. Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
^ "第96回米国アカデミー賞国際長編映画賞への出品作品として、申請８作品から「PERFECT DAYS」監督：ヴィム・ヴェンダース（出品会社：有限会社ビターズ・エンド）を選考しました。" [From the eight submitted works, we have selected "PERFECT DAYS" directed by Wim Wenders (submitted by Bitters End LLC) as the entry for the 96th Academy Awards International Feature Film. The 96th Academy Awards International Feature Film] (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Archived from the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 28 October 2024.

[The_Match_Factory-1] "Perfect Days". The Match Factory. Archived from the original on 9 June 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.

[BOM-2] "Perfect Days (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 27 September 2024.

[NUM-3] "Perfect Days (2023)". The Numbers. Retrieved 6 September 2024.

[4] Bradshaw, Peter (25 May 2023). "Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders explores a quiet life in Tokyo". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 October 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.

[DW-5] Breitenbach, Dagmar (12 May 2022). "Tokyo's public toilets inspire Wim Wenders". DW. Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2023.

[6] "第96回米国アカデミー賞国際長編映画賞への出品作品として、申請８作品から「PERFECT DAYS」監督：ヴィム・ヴェンダース（出品会社：有限会社ビターズ・エンド）を選考しました。" [From the eight submitted works, we have selected "PERFECT DAYS" directed by Wim Wenders (submitted by Bitters End LLC) as the entry for the 96th Academy Awards International Feature Film. The 96th Academy Awards International Feature Film] (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Archived from the original on 7 April 2024. Retrieved 28 October 2024.

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