Perfect Days

“Just a really lovely film with a good soundtrack to boot.”

“I couldn't explain to you how the stillness of a methodically near-plotless movie about an almost-silent man cleaning beautiful public toilets in Tokyo fixed something in me that I didn't know was broken and broke something else in me I hadn't known was fragile, but here we are. If one day I am hoisted from the ocean like a tiger shark and marine biologists of the spirit rummage around among my license plates and tires, they'll find PERFECT DAYS intact, carried with me whole ever since I saw it, in here always.”

“Never has a movie made me feel more quietly seen, more gently reminded, more recalibrated to the wonder infused in day-to-day life than Perfect Days.”

“Might be my favorite movie. Also an excellent filter to watch with a new person in your life to find out if they are someone who can appreciate silence, quiet beauty, and the peace that comes with living in the moment.”

“I think about this movie 3 times a week. And listen to the soundtrack about the same.”

“I loved it so much that I watched it two nights in a row. Every moment is beautiful, though there’s a feeling that it’s only beautiful because it hadn’t always been. rating 🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃”

“The main protagonist is a middle-aged Japanese man who works as a public toilet cleaner. The movie felt like poetry in its pace.”

“Best closing scene in a movie ever”

“A perfect meditation on finding contentedness is the everyday.”

“Just my kind of movie, 100%”

“No notes.”

“A perfect film”

“A film that could be described as Buddhist in nature, Perfect Days is a lesson on living in the moment, appreciating the small things and accepting life on earth for exactly how it is.”

“Made me laugh, made me cry, made me miss Japan and it’s people. 5/5”

“Dir. Wim Wenders”

“koji yakisho’s eyes contain a tender universe that will invite you to make the small things feel enormous. This film lingers and will make you pay attention to a whole new world in front of you”

“this is a two-fer recommendation. first, the film. duh. not to be dramatic but Perfect Days quite literally changed my life [because it changed my perspective]. i walked into the theater looking to escape the overwhelming tides of life + this film held my hand + told me that peace comes in many forms, we just have to look around sometimes. second, Kanopy. get your cinephile on! they have an amazing selection of movies + documentaries. having a library card has literally opened my eyeballs so many thing from screening tickets, museum access, i forgot the rest but those are the two main ones i found myself super excited over. ok bai!”

“One of the best "snippet of someones life" movies i've seen in a hot minute.”

“Eternal fave”

“I aspire to be him, Living so simply”