Perfect Days

audience Reviews

, 90% Audience Score
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Such a moving, big hearted movie, a sanity check for one's equilibrium, in our busy, rushed preoccupied, stressed world. A must see movie. The last scene alone is worth the price of the ticket.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Accompany Hirayama as he goes about his daily business (no pun intended) cleaning toilets in the hip Shibuya district. Life flows across the canvas. The film is at its best in the zen like moments of Hirayama's daily routines and only dips when others are focused on (e.g. the chap dancing by the water). An excellent meditation on finding happiness in the small things.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    The entire film industry has much to learn from this simple yet amazing film. Thank you, Wim, for creating this masterpiece. I've placed a small poster next to my desk as a reminder that greatness can be achieved through small, thoughtful steps.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    It took me to a world that I quite frankly enjoyed...thoroughly. I almost wish I can watch more of what Hirayama is up to, I have a deep respect for his high values of hard work and love the idea of a modest life being every bit as fulfilling as that of a social media influencer...and then some.
  • Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    This film certainly feels good to watch. The main character is an introspective man of purity and good energy. I wish I had his positive energy. His day-to-day routine is really an analyzation of life. A reflection of time passed. Throughout his day, he takes time to appreciate those little moments that so many just let pass by without really noticing. A stopping and smelling of the roses, so to speak. As he falls asleep, the beautiful visuals of the day were really nicely done. In the last scene, as he drives and begins to both smile and cry, that is life captured in one man's face. Life is filled with highs and lows, yet life goes on. Wim Wenders certainly created a special film in Perfect Days. I have only seen a few of his pictures, but this one is by far my favorite. Koji Yakusho's performance was breathtaking. I highly recommend. 94/100
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Extraordinary. Someone mentioned a Buddhist film but it is that but also a story about letting go - I interpreted the brief scene where he is watching the driven business people run to work as what he left behind to find a life of beauty and duty to others. I never thought I would marvel at the architecture of toilets but that is here too. Marvelous film.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    remarkable exploration of an ordinary life which has one important feature: having full control and dominance on one's emotions. Simple but impossible, with full beauty
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    What a wonderful, kind and sensitive film reminding us all that taking joy from the small things in our every day life makes you feel gratitude for being alive.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    A gem, it’s a watch. Meanders wonderfully and lets you fall into the story slowly slowly.
  • Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    This Movie was so sweet to the core I loved that this culture lends to this type of disciplined way of life and desire to have that type of consistency without the question needing to be asked if you are lonely. No matter where you are this question will be asked. What do each of us think is pretty what are the things we stop for or will stop for and to whom do we share these things with? This movie reflected our routines and the things we see and think about on the regular, usually no one else sees as well it begs the question if we ourselves are lonely. The movie had such an organized way about it subtle color and wonderful cinematography. had me well up at moments and also smiled in little moments that we each recognized. With as little of dialogue as this movie had such a story was told! the emotions on his face in the last scene wes everything! such a sweet and fulfilling film!