This article is about the 2023 film. For other uses, see Perfect Days (disambiguation).
Perfect Days
Release poster
Directed by
Wim Wenders
Written by
Wim Wenders
Takuma Takasaki
Produced by
Wim Wenders[1]
Takuma Takasaki[1]
Koji Yanai[1]
Starring
Kōji Yakusho
Tokio Emoto
Arisa Nakano
Aoi Yamada
Yumi Asō
Sayuri Ishikawa
Tomokazu Miura
Min Tanaka
Cinematography
Franz Lustig[1]
Edited by
Toni Froschhammer[1]
Production companies
Master Mind Limited
Spoon Inc.
Wenders Images
Distributed by
DCM (Germany)
Bitters End (Japan)
Release dates
25 May 2023 (2023-05-25) (Cannes)
21 December 2023 (2023-12-21) (Germany)
22 December 2023 (2023-12-22) (Japan)
Running time
124 minutes
Countries
Japan
Germany
Language
Japanese
Box office
$24.6 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 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 not directed by a Japanese filmmaker to be nominated as the Japanese entry.[6]
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