Perfect days / Neon and Koji Yanai present ; a Master Mind production ; in collaboration with Spoon and Wenders Images ; produced by Koji Yanai ; producers Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki ; written by Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki ; directed by Wim Wenders.
Edition:
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 2023. Full screen (1.33:1). Accompanying pamphlet contains an essay Where the Lights Come Through by Bilge Ebiri. Special features: New interview with director Wim Wenders; Interview with actor Koji Yakusho; Interview with producer Koji Yanai, founder of the Tokyo Toilet project; "some body comes into the light (2023), a short by Wenders, featuring a new introduction by the director; Theatrical trailer; An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri. 880-01 Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada, Yumi Aso, Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura, Min Tanaka.
Summary:
A perfect song that hits at just the right moment, the play of sunlight through leaves, a fleeting moment of human connection in a vast metropolis: the wonders of everyday life come into breathtaking focus in this profoundly moving film by Wim Wenders. In a radiant, Cannes-award-winning performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness, Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through his small exchanges with those around him and with the city itself. Channeling his idol Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders crafts a serenely minimalist ode to the miracle that is the here and now.
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