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Wim Wenders On Oscar Nomination And “All Hell Breaking Loose” During Lockdown Inspiring Peace For Japanese Film ‘Perfect Days’
While in England, German director Wim Wenders was sandwiched between a press tour and a brief lunch when a member of his team walked into the restaurant to secretly signal across the room that he w…
The film Perfect Days, co-written and directed by Wenders, tells the story of Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho), a humble toilet cleaner satisfied by the humdrum goings-on of life in Tokyo. I like the idea of a man who didn’t own so much, and that also is based on a few encounters I had in a couple of last years and meeting young people in New York, but also in Berlin and other European cities. I feel it’s a nice open field, and I’m happy that this film Perfect Days, which in the end does present a totally fictional character but incorporates some documentary elements.
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