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Mar 1, 2024 · Those ‘dream installations’, as the director calls them, were filmed and edited by his wife, Donata Wenders, and are presented as black and white fragments of the protagonist’s day. ‘Through these scenes I realised that I dream in black and white,’ Yakusho said.
Mar 26, 2024 · Working closely with his Tokyo-based co-screenwriter Takuma Takasaki and a largely Japanese crew, the 78-year-old director has crafted a lovely piece of late-career poetry that's equal parts meditative and melancholy. In a performance of gentle, unforced humility, veteran Japanese actor Kōji Yakusho (Shall We Dance?
- Luke Goodsell
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.
May 25, 2023 · Monochrome dream sequences by Wenders’ wife Donata — drawing on the Japanese concept of komerebi, or the play of light in trees — allude to Hirayama’s equally peaceful but poetically ...
- Guy Lodge
Feb 10, 2024 · Q: Let’s talk about the creation of the character Hirayama with screenwriter Takuma Takasaki. In creating the character, you took some inspiration from the singer Leonard Cohen [who left music for several years to study Buddhism in a monastery]. Hirayama gave his love and compassion to his friends and family.
Feb 23, 2024 · On the very last day of the shoot, my wife and I were wearing the same uniform that Hirayama is wearing all through the film, those blue overalls, with the writing ‘The Tokyo Toilet’ on the back, just as an act of solidarity with our leading actor.
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Feb 9, 2024 · Wim Wenders and Perfect Days' writer Takuma Takasaki speak with MovieWeb about joy, Japan, and their Oscar-nominated film.
