Perfect Days

Presented by Reel Alternatives Huntsville in partnership with Algonquin Theatre

Nominated for the Best International Film Oscar, Perfect Days is a poignant character study and emotionally charged journey into the soul of Tokyo. Radiating with charm, this unique mix of fiction and ordinary life finds an unusual, poetic angle to guide us: the architectural marvels of some of Tokyo’s public toilets.

Kôji Yakusho plays Hirayama, a cleaner of these toilets. Hirayama lives alone in a small house full of plants, his days going by according to quiet rhythms that never seem to change. Hirayama speaks very little and has a great passion for music, books, and the trees he loves to photograph. He drives to work in his minivan, fully equipped with his cleaning gear, while The Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, or Lou Reed ring in ageless, husky hums from a tape player. His structured routine is slowly interrupted by unexpected encounters that force him to reconnect with his past.

As if in search of a new cinema on the road, director Wenders follows his protagonist and instead discovers new places of the heart, creating a deeply moving, poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.

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