Perfect Days

PERFECT DAYS (2023)

Timing: 2:4 (124 min)

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All about film

Video 12

Photo 134

Actors and characters

Release date

2023-11-10

Country

Germany, Japan

Production

Master Mind, Wenders Images, Spoon.

Genre

Drama

Budget

$14 000 000

Revenue

$24 094 016

Website

https://neonrated.com/films/perfect-days

Director

Wim Wenders

Actors

Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada, Yumi Aso, Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura, Min Tanaka, Miyako Tanaka, Long Mizuma
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki

Producer

Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki, Koji Yanai, Koji Yanai, Koji Yakusho

Operator

Franz Lustig

Composer

Artist

Chihiro Hamada, Sumire Miyahara

Audition

Motokawa Masanobu, Emi Fukuda

Editing

Toni Froschhammer, Clémentine Decremps, Keiko Ono
All team (80)

• Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese businessman Koji Yanai invited Wim Wenders to Japan to create a series of promotional videos about the redesign of public toilets in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, carried out by designers from different countries. The director was so impressed with what he saw that he suggested to Yanai to shoot a feature film instead of the videos.
• Filming took only 17 days.
• The film's screenplay was written in three weeks.
• The first Japanese film nominated by Japan for the 'Oscar' award in the 'Best International Feature Film' category, directed by a non-Japanese filmmaker.
• According to Wim Wenders, the main character Hirayama's name is a reference to Yasujiro Ozu's last film, 'An Autumn Afternoon,' whose main character is also named Hirayama.
• The first Japanese film submitted by Japan for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, directed by a non-Japanese filmmaker.
• According to Wim Wenders, the name of the main character, Hirayama, is a reference to Yasujiro Ozu's final film, "An Autumn Afternoon," whose protagonist is also named Hirayama.