Perfect Days

Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo and keeps the rest of the day small: plants, a cassette, a book, the same route. Wenders photographs the work without turning it into a lesson about simplicity. Yakusho’s face does the changes that the plot refuses to announce. The NEON trailer is almost as quiet as the film, which is the right advertisement. A visitor from his past arrives. The route continues anyway.