Drinkin’ in those perfect days (CREDIT: NEON/Screenshot)

Starring: Koji Yakusho

Director: Wim Wenders

Running Time: 124 Minutes

Rating: PG

Release Date: February 7, 2024 (Theaters)

After watching Perfect Days, I feel compelled to now ask: would I like to have my own perfect days? Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) certainly seems a fellow worth emulating in particular ways as he gets on by as a toilet cleaner. (It certainly helps that the public Japanese facilities are much more whimsical than those in America, at least in the park where he’s assigned to.) While a series of perfect days would by definition sound pretty great, in practice I worry that they would instead be exhausting. But of course then they wouldn’t actually be perfect! Maybe we should all just take some inspiration from Hirayama and his lack of concern about paradoxes and see where that takes us.

Grade: 2 Lous out of 3 Reeds