Perfect Days - English subtitles

Named after the famous Lou Reed song, Perfect Days gives an insight into the daily life and work of a man called Hirayama. He seems perfectly happy with his seemingly simple existence in Tokyo. The arrive of his niece Niko may teach us a little more about the closeted man.

Lead actor Kôji Yakusho conquered Cannes with his serene performance and was given the prize for best actor in the official competition. For director Wim Wenders, this tender character study marked a return to Japan almost forty years after the documentary Tokyo-Ga about master filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu. The spirit of Ozu shines through in the film's bittersweet, wholesome and quiet beauty that captures small gestures and pleasures with great empathy and clarity. Just as Hirayama catches the sunlight on camera through the foliage of trees.