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  Review by AmandaTheJedi ★★★★½

  The toilet cleaning movie is the one that got me.

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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★★★ 2

  PERFECT DAYS initially seems repetitive as it follows the daily routine of a toilet cleaner in Tokyo but patience & further examination reveals a deeper character study with rewarding results. A beautifully serene film that will gently rock your soul. Koji Yakusho is wonderful!

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  Review by Will Sloan

  Very moving how the main character lives a bare-bones lifestyle but flatly refuses to sell his treasured cassette tapes for $100+ each because he loves them too much. There's nothing that money could buy that would be better than those tapes.

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  Review by zuzupan ★★★½

  bro seriously woke up at the same time every day without setting an alarm. the sheer willpower !!!

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  Review by Sammi Salami ★★★½ 1

  Hirayama is the ideal man
  - doesn’t talk
  - knows how to clean
  - fire music taste

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  Review by Janica ★★★★

  Gentle and lyrical, Perfect Days offers a Zen-like affirmation of humility, modesty, empathy and the spiritual rewards of a simple life. It is also a love letter to the urban spaces and modernist structures of Tokyo, from its high-tech bathrooms to the record-breaking Sky Tree tower, which serves as a recurring visual motif. 

  Perfect Days is an unexpected late-career gem from Wenders, a small film with a big message: when life weighs too heavy on your shoulders, take a little time out to stop and smell the toilets.

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  Review by ram<3 ★★★★½

  I'd never thought that a film about a guy cleaning toilets could be that beautiful

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  Review by ringo bach ★★★★★ 4

  like, 10 out of 10

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  Review by jing ★★★★★

  Cannes 2023 — Film #11

  Next time is next time. Now is now. 

  Shot in 4:3, Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days is filled with an overwhelming sense of nostalgia — helped by a wonderful selection of songs from the 70s and 80s — but at the same time, it’s a tender meditation on living life in the moment. Hirayama, a middle-aged man working as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo, teaches us how to find beauty in rustling leaves, reflections on ceilings, skyscrapers and traffic, the sun and the rain, day and night — and other humans. 

  Koji Yakusho’s portrayal of Hirayama is superb. With very few lines throughout the entire film, his character relies on facial and bodily expressions. From Hirayama’s…

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  Review by Jaime Rebanal ★★★★★ 3

  TIFF 2023 #2: Centrepiece (Canadian Premiere)

  A lot more than you'd expect for a movie about toilet cleaning. One that only shows you so much about the beauty of life, packing in so much more before delivering a punch in the gut.

  Reviewed for Cinema from the Spectrum

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  Review by Julian (The Film Seeker) ★★★★

  Wim Wenders may not be the first director to take artistic inspiration from a toilet in desperate need of cleaning, but he can likely lay claim to the first attempt at doing so intentionally. The result of that intent is the beautifully minute Perfect Days, a film that lives up to its title in spirit if not in practice. Wenders's slice-of-life tale is one of the restraint expected of an aging legend, but thankfully, this path has been chosen for a story befitting such reservation of scale.

  Kōji Yakusho's already-award-winning performance anchors Perfect Days with a quiet grace of contentment so infectious that it makes his character's career of cleaning public Japanese bathrooms almost soothing. Hirayama's world is simple; his…

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  Review by Meliksah Altuntas ★★★★½

  Shame on you Wenders! Why didn't you get my permission before filming my life?