Koji Yakusho
Monday, Feb. 5, 2024
Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days" is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the movie resides, really, is Yakusho's face.
In this gently sublime film, Hirayama steps outside...
Wednesday, May. 11, 2022
Wim Wenders is making a film about high-end public toilets in Japan that will have what the renowned German director calls "social meaning" about people in modern cities.
"My first reaction was, I must admit: What? Toilets? Chotto mattene," he said Wednesday, using the Japanese expression...